Load Balancers
Distribute traffic across multiple servers with health checks and a dedicated public IP — each customer's load balancer runs on its own instance for isolation, rather than a shared multi-tenant pool.
Creating a load balancer
- Open Load Balancers → Create.
- Pick a region and a plan.
- Choose whether to use a floating IP (a reassignable public IPv4 you can move between resources) or a dedicated static IP.
- Add targets — the servers that should receive traffic — and a health check path/port.
Health checks
The load balancer polls each target on the configured interval; a target that fails health checks is automatically taken out of rotation and put back in once it recovers, with no manual intervention.
Floating IPs
A floating IP is a public IPv4 address you can move between servers or load balancers on demand — useful for failover (point it at a standby instance) or blue/green deployments (repoint it at the new version once it's ready). Manage floating IPs from Networks → Floating IPs.