Load Balancer Details
DigitalOcean fully manages Regional Load Balancers and Global Load Balancers, ensuring they are highly available load balancing services. Load balancers distribute traffic to groups of Droplets in specific regions or across different regions, which prevents the health of a backend service from depending on the health of a single server or a single region.
Using a load balancer as a gateway gives you the flexibility to change your backend infrastructure without affecting the availability of your services, enabling seamless scaling, rolling deployments, large architecture redesigns, and more.
DigitalOcean offers two different types of load balancers: regional and global. Each type of load balancer has different pricing and inclusions.
Load balancers and Let’s Encrypt certificates are available in every region.
Limits and known issues for load balancers.