# Load Balancers – DigitalOcean Documentation

> Load balancers distribute traffic across pools of backend resources for high availability setups.
- [Load Balancer Support](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/load-balancers/support/index.html.md): Get help with technical support and answers to frequently asked questions.



## Getting Started with Load Balancers

Quickstarts and intermediate tutorials to get started.

- [Load Balancer Quickstart](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/load-balancers/getting-started/quickstart/index.html.md): Just the essentials to go from zero to working in a few minutes.
- [How to Work with DigitalOcean Load Balancers Using doctl](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/load-balancers/getting-started/with-doctl/index.html.md): Use the official command-line client for DigitalOcean’s API to create and configure a load balancer for multiple backend web servers.

## Load Balancer How-Tos

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.

## Load Balancers Concepts

Explanations and definitions of core concepts in Load Balancers.

- [Load Balancer Status](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/load-balancers/concepts/load-balancer-status/index.html.md): The statuses reflect how many nodes in a load balancer pass their latest health check.
- [Best Practices for Performance on DigitalOcean Load Balancers](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/load-balancers/concepts/best-practices/index.html.md): Get the best performance from your load balancers based on your use case and application architecture, like using HTTP/2, and enabling Droplet monitoring.

## Load Balancer Details

Features, plans and pricing, availability, limits, known issues, and more.

- [Load Balancers Features](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/load-balancers/details/features/index.html.md): 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. Additionally, …
- [Load Balancers Pricing](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/load-balancers/details/pricing/index.html.md): DigitalOcean offers two different types of load balancers: regional and global. Each type of load balancer has different pricing and inclusions. Global Load Balancers Global load balancers cost $15.00 per month and include the following: 25 million …
- [Load Balancers Availability](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/load-balancers/details/availability/index.html.md): Datacenter availability for regional and global load balancers.
- [Load Balancers Limits](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/load-balancers/details/limits/index.html.md): Limits and known issues for load balancers.