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Cloudflare Load Balancing

Maximize application performance and availability
Paid add-on

Cloudflare Load Balancing distributes traffic across your servers, which reduces server strain and latency and improves the experience for end users.


​​ Features

​​ Load balancing and failover

Distribute traffic evenly across your healthy servers, automatically failing over when a server is unhealthy or unresponsive.

​​ Active monitoring

Monitor your servers at configurable intervals and across multiple data centers to look for specific status codes, response text, and timeouts.

​​ Intelligent routing

Choose whether to distribute requests based on server latency, a visitor’s geographic region, or even a visitor’s GPS coordinates.

​​ Custom rules

Customize the behavior of your load balancer based on the characteristics of individual requests.

​​ Analytics

Review comprehensive analytics to evaluate traffic flow, assess origin health status, and review changes in pools and pool health over time.



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