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NodeBalancers

Deploy high-availability load balancers to maintain uptime, scale efficiently, and manage traffic at predictable costs

Manage scale with transparent traffic distribution

Make high availability simple and affordable with NodeBalancers, a fully managed load balancing solution. Whether you’re running critical business applications or scaling web services, NodeBalancers combine automated failover, intuitive management, and predictable pricing to deliver continuous service without complexity.

Securely distribute traffic with ease

Highly scalable and cloud native compatible

Scale horizontally by distributing traffic across servers and Kubernetes clusters. Instantly adjust capacity as apps grow.

Security and reliability built-in

Keep applications secure and responsive with DDoS protection, SSL/TLS support, and automated monitoring.

Distribute any load

Get load distribution for any workload. NodeBalancers support TCP, HTTP, and HTTPS load balancing via HTTP/1.1.

Features

  • Terminate SSL traffic at the load balancer level with configurable rulesets while preserving requester IP information
  • Share your account’s network transfer quota among NodeBalancers, and compute for optimal resource use
  • Automate configuration and scaling through the comprehensive Linode API
  • Maintain application consistency by routing subsequent requests to the same back-end server
  • Maintain reliability with passive checks on every request and configurable active health monitoring
  • Deploy across all regions with guaranteed performance and reliability
  • Balance multiple services across different network ports using a single NodeBalancer
  • Get dedicated IPv4 and IPv6 addresses with each NodeBalancer for consistent accessibility
  • Protect back-end resources and prevent abuse with customizable client connection limits

Next steps

NodeBalancers technical documentation

This guide provides you with the essentials to get started with NodeBalancers.

Learn how to create a NodeBalancer

This guide walks you through creating a NodeBalancer through Cloud Manager.

Ready to get started?

Log in or create an account to start using NodeBalancers.

Have questions?

Contact a sales consultant today to learn more.

See if you qualify for up to US$5,000 in cloud credits

See if you qualify for up to US$5,000 in cloud credits

We’re here to help you with large-scale deployments, migrations, app optimization, architecture assessments, security and reliability audits, and much more. For support or account issues, please visit our support page.