Vultr Load Balancers | Scalable & High Availability Traffic Distribution - Vultr.com
Starting at $10.00 / month

Deploy fully configured and managed load balancers rapidly for easy load distribution between Vultr servers within a Vultr data center region or globally between Vultr’s 32 global data center regions.

Deploy now at $0.015 / hour

Harness advanced
load balancing with ease

Vultr Load Balancers take the headaches and complications out of global load balancing.

Highly available
Add durability to your infrastructure by deploying Vultr Load Balancers for production clusters. Each load balancer includes built-in health monitoring and automatic failover.
Secure
Vultr Load Balancers make it easy to secure your traffic with SSL configuration options by allowing you to bring your own SSL certificates, ensuring secure traffic for your load balancer and application.
Scalable
Leverage Vultr Load Balancers to increase performance and stability. Simply add or remove instances from your compute pool and the load balancer will route traffic intelligently.
Global
With Vultr Global Load Balancers, automatically route traffic to the nearest server worldwide for increased performance and lower latency. Limit the effects of local network outages in production deployments.

Lower latency through
global availability

Automatically process server requests close to your customers at the nearest Vultr server with Vultr Global Load Balancers in Vultr’s 32 cloud data center regions

Amsterdam NL
Atlanta, GA US
Bangalore IN
Chicago, IL US
Dallas, TX US
Delhi NCR IN
Frankfurt DE
Honolulu, HI US
Johannesburg ZA
London GB
Los Angeles, CA US
Madrid ES
Manchester GB
Melbourne AU
Mexico City MX
Miami, FL US
Mumbai IN
New Jersey, NJ US
Osaka JP
Paris FR
Santiago CL
São Paulo BR
Seattle, WA US
Seoul KR
Silicon Valley, CA US
Singapore SG
Stockholm SE
Sydney AU
Tel Aviv IL
Tokyo JP
Toronto CA
Warsaw PL
32 regions

Additional resources

Review our FAQ and Vultr Load Balancers Doc for more information.

FAQ

How am I billed for Load Balancers?

Vultr Load Balancers starts at $10.00 per subscription, but pricing may vary depending on the data center location where you choose to deploy. Learn More

How is bandwidth charged?

Vultr Load Balancers are bandwidth neutral. We only charge on bandwidth on the instances attached to the load balancer.

How do I attach instances to my Vultr Load Balancer?

In the Vultr dashboard you will be able to assign and remove instances to a given Load Balancer.

How do I manage my Load Balancer?

You do not have to worry about managing Vultr Load Balancers. They are fully managed.

What protocols do you support?

Vultr Load Balancers support TCP, HTTP, and HTTPS.

Can I use my load balancer in one region with instances in a different region?

Unfortunately not. Load Balancers and attached instances must be in the same region.

Why should I use a load balancer?

Load balancers help:

  • • Prevent server overloads
  • • Improve application uptime and performance
  • • Enable horizontal scaling
  • • Provide redundancy and fault tolerance
  • • Automatically route traffic to healthy instances

What type of load balancing does Vultr offer?

Vultr provides Layer 4 (TCP/UDP) load balancers, which operate at the transport layer to efficiently route traffic based on IP address and port.

Is Vultr’s load balancer managed?

Yes. Vultr’s load balancer is a fully managed service, meaning the infrastructure, configuration, scaling, and monitoring are handled by Vultr.

How does a load balancer improve uptime?

By automatically redirecting traffic away from unhealthy instances to healthy ones, load balancers ensure your application remains online even if a backend server fails.

Can I use Vultr Load Balancers with any application?

Yes. Vultr Load Balancers are compatible with any TCP or UDP-based application, including web servers, gaming servers, APIs, and database services.

Are health checks included?

Yes. Vultr Load Balancers include configurable health checks that monitor the status of your backend instances and ensure traffic is only routed to healthy ones.

Is SSL termination supported?

Currently, Vultr Load Balancers do not support SSL termination. You'll need to manage SSL at the application or server level.

How do I configure a load balancer on Vultr?

You can easily set up and configure a load balancer through the Vultr control panel or via API. The process includes selecting protocol, ports, health check type, and backend instances.

Can I scale my application using a load balancer?

Yes. Load balancers allow you to add or remove backend servers as needed, enabling horizontal scaling to handle increased traffic.

Does the load balancer support automatic failover?

Yes. Vultr Load Balancers monitor the health of backend servers and automatically reroute traffic in case of server failure, ensuring high availability.

What regions are supported?

Vultr Load Balancers are available in all Vultr regions, allowing you to deploy global infrastructure with region-specific routing.

Is DDoS protection included?

While Vultr Load Balancers help distribute traffic, DDoS protection is handled at the infrastructure level. Vultr also offers optional DDoS mitigation services in select plans.

How can Vultr Load Balancers optimize performance for microservices-based architectures?

Vultr Load Balancers enable horizontal scaling and intelligent traffic distribution for microservices, ensuring resilient communication between services and seamless scaling during traffic surges or container orchestration events.

What is the impact of using Vultr Load Balancers on edge latency in multi-region deployments?

With availability across all Vultr regions, Vultr Load Balancers reduce edge latency by routing traffic to the closest healthy instance, enhancing end-user experience in globally distributed applications.

How do Vultr Load Balancers integrate with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools?

Vultr Load Balancers can be provisioned and managed via Vultr’s API, allowing integration into IaC workflows using tools like Terraform or Ansible for automated deployments and infrastructure version control.

Can Vultr Load Balancers be used to implement blue-green or canary deployments?

Yes. By managing backend pools and health checks, Vultr Load Balancers can route a portion of traffic to new versions of your application, enabling safe and controlled deployment strategies such as blue-green or canary rollouts.

How am I billed for Load Balancers?

Vultr Load Balancers starts at $10.00 per subscription, but pricing may vary depending on the data center location where you choose to deploy. Learn More

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