Using a load balancer as a gateway gives you the flexibility to change your backend infrastructure without affecting the availability of your services, enabling seamless scaling, rolling deployments, large architecture redesigns, and more.
Load Balancer Details
Generated on 5 May 2025
DigitalOcean fully manages Regional Load Balancers and Global Load Balancers, ensuring they are highly available load balancing services. Load balancers distribute traffic to groups of backend resources in specific regions or across different regions, which prevents the health of a service from depending on the health of a single server, cluster, or region.
Load Balancers Features
Load Balancers Pricing
DigitalOcean offers two different types of load balancers: regional and global. Each type of load balancer has different pricing and inclusions.
Load Balancers Availability
Datacenter availability for regional and global load balancers.
Load Balancers Limits
Limits and known issues for load balancers.