Load Balancers include configurable health checks that automatically monitor instance status and remove failing servers from rotation.
Load Balancers include configurable firewall rules to restrict inbound traffic based on IP addresses, subnets, or ranges for enhanced security.
Load Balancers enable horizontal scaling by distributing traffic across multiple backend instances to handle increased demand efficiently.
Load Balancers can only distribute traffic to instances within the same region to ensure optimal performance and reliable health checks.
Load Balancers work with any application using TCP, HTTP, or HTTPS protocols, supporting diverse workloads from web apps to game servers.
Load Balancers support advanced deployment strategies like blue-green and canary releases through selective traffic routing and backend pool management.
Load Balancers provide automatic failover through continuous health checks on attached instances to ensure high availability.
Guide to configuring Vultr Load Balancers to route traffic through VPC networks for improved security and reduced bandwidth costs
Load Balancers optimize microservices architectures by intelligently distributing traffic across multiple backend instances, ensuring high availability and performance while enabling seamless scaling.
Forwarding rules that define how incoming traffic on specific ports is directed to backend instance ports on Vultr Load Balancers.
Load Balancers seamlessly integrate with Infrastructure-as-Code tools through Terraform providers, Ansible modules, and the Vultr API for automated deployment and management.
Load balancers enhance system reliability by monitoring server health and automatically redirecting traffic away from failing instances to operational ones.
Load Balancers are bandwidth neutral with traffic charges applied to the attached instances rather than the load balancer itself.
A guide for diagnosing and resolving health check failures in Vultr Load Balancers to ensure proper traffic routing to backend servers.
Load Balancers rely on network-edge DDoS protection with optional enhanced protection available for high-risk workloads.
Load Balancers support SSL termination, handling TLS handshakes and decrypting HTTPS traffic before forwarding to backend servers.
Load Balancers are a fully managed service where Vultr handles all infrastructure provisioning, operations, and maintenance without requiring customer configuration of the underlying software stack.
Explains port restrictions when setting up Vultr firewall rules, noting specific reserved port ranges for internal Load Balancer operations
The default health check interval for Vultr Load Balancers is 10 seconds and can be modified through configuration settings.
Load Balancers optimize edge latency in multi-region deployments by intelligently routing traffic to the nearest healthy backend servers based on geographic proximity and server health.
Each Vultr Load Balancer supports a maximum of 15 forwarding rules for directing incoming traffic to backend instances.
A fully managed service that distributes network traffic across multiple servers to ensure high availability and optimize resource utilization.
Load Balancers support TCP, HTTP, and HTTPS protocols for distributing traffic across multiple servers.
Load Balancers are available in all Vultr datacenter regions for distributing traffic across compute instances.
Overview of traffic distribution algorithms supported by Vultr Load Balancers for optimizing request handling across backend servers
offers both Layer 4 (Transport) and Layer 7 (Application) load balancing to distribute traffic across backend instances.
Troubleshooting guide for connectivity issues between Vultr Load Balancers and backend instances, covering common network configuration problems and instance health issues.
Explains why backend instances may become unhealthy when enabling PROXY Protocol on Vultr Load Balancers without proper backend configuration
Explains why Vultr Load Balancers return 504 Gateway Timeout errors and their relationship to backend server response times.
A 503 error from Vultr Load Balancer occurs when no healthy backend instances are available to handle requests.
Load balancers improve application reliability and performance by distributing client traffic across multiple backend instances to prevent overload and ensure high availability.