DigitalOcean Load Balancers are a fully-managed, highly available network load balancing service. Load balancers distribute traffic to groups of Droplets, which decouples the overall health of a backend service from the health of a single server to ensure that your services stay online.
This glossary defines the core concepts behind load balancers to help build your mental model of how load balancers work and understand what the documentation is referring to when it uses certain terminology.