# Load Balancer How-Tos – DigitalOcean Documentation

> How to accomplish specific tasks in detail, like creation/deletion, configuration, and management.
- [How to Create Regional Load Balancers](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/load-balancers/how-to/create/index.html.md): Create a load balancer and choose its backend Droplets to improve the availability and flexibility of your infrastructure.
- [How to Create and Set Up Global Load Balancers](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/load-balancers/how-to/create-global-load-balancer/index.html.md): Create a global load balancer, choose its backend resources, and connect a domain to it.
- [How to Manage Regional Load Balancers](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/load-balancers/how-to/manage/index.html.md): 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](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/load-balancers/how-to/manage-global-load-balancers/index.html.md): View and modify the global load balancer's domains, sticky sessions, health checks, and other settings.
- [How to Scale Regional Load Balancers](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/load-balancers/how-to/scale/index.html.md): Scale a load balancer to better match its performance to its workload.
- [How to Configure Backend Droplets for Network Load Balancers](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/load-balancers/how-to/configure-droplets-for-nlb/index.html.md): Configure backend Droplets to work with network load balancers.
- [How to Configure SSL Passthrough](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/load-balancers/how-to/ssl-passthrough/index.html.md): 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 Destroy Load Balancers](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/load-balancers/how-to/destroy/index.html.md): Destroy a load balancer to permanently and irreversibly remove it from your account.
- [How to Balance TCP Traffic](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/load-balancers/how-to/tcp/index.html.md): Use TCP load balancing for applications that don't speak HTTP.
- [How to Configure SSL Termination](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/load-balancers/how-to/ssl-termination/index.html.md): 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.