How to Create Regional Load Balancers
Create a load balancer and choose its backend Droplets to improve the availability and flexibility of your infrastructure.
Load Balancer How-Tos
Generated on 2 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.
Getting Started
How to Create and Set Up Global Load Balancers
Create a global load balancer, choose its backend resources, and connect a domain to it.
How to Manage Regional Load Balancers
View and modify a load balancer’s backend Droplet pool, view graphs of traffic patterns and infrastructure health, and customize the load balancer’s forwarding rules, sticky sessions, health checks, SSL forwarding, and PROXY protocol.
How to Manage Global Load Balancers
View and modify the global load balancer’s domains, sticky sessions, health checks, and other settings.
Load Balancer Management
How to Scale Regional Load Balancers
Scale a load balancer to better match its performance to its workload.
How to Configure SSL Passthrough
Set up SSL passthrough to send encrypted SSL requests directly to the backend Droplet pool via the VPC network. This secures the traffic between the load balancers and the backend Droplets.
How to Configure Backend Droplets for Network Load Balancers
Configure backend Droplets to work with network load balancers.
How to Destroy Load Balancers
Destroy a load balancer to permanently and irreversibly remove it from your account.
How to Balance TCP Traffic
Use TCP load balancing for applications that don’t speak HTTP.
How to Configure SSL Termination
Set up SSL termination to decrypt SSL requests at the load balancer and send them unencrypted to the backend Droplet pool via the private network.