Maximize web application performance and availability with Load Balancing

A global, always-on load balancer
  • Cloudflare Load Balancing ensures better performance, uptime and user experience by dynamically balancing traffic across geographically-distributed data centers and servers.

  • Bundle Load Balancing with Cloudflare Pro to make your web application even faster.

BENEFITS OF CLOUDFLARE LOAD BALANCING
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Improved performance and resiliency

As soon as an origin server or server pool goes down, requests proxied through Cloudflare get instantly rerouted to the nearest data center — helping maximize performance and resiliency.

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Detailed analytics

Evaluate traffic flow, assess the health status of the origin servers in your pools, and monitor pool health over time. Real-time latency maps and load balancer health checks included.

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Quick, simple configuration and management

Set up a customizable and scalable load balancing infrastructure using the Cloudflare Dashboard or REST API — no additional hardware or software required.

Cloudflare Load Balancing - How it works

Improve availability and web performance with our global, cloud-based load balancer

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Load Balancing intelligently distributes traffic across your multicloud deployments to reduce server strain, enhance application availability and user experience, and minimize bandwidth consumption and latency.

It runs in each of our data centers across 335+ cities worldwide and is backed by our DDoS-resilient DNS — the fastest authoritative DNS in the world.

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