A Load Balancer sits in front of two or more of your own servers in the same region and spreads incoming traffic across them, with health checks that route around a server that goes down. It's $9/mo and gives you in-region (single data-centre) resilience and horizontal scale.
It is not a CDN, WAF or multi-region/global service — it doesn't cache content, filter attacks, or fail traffic over between regions. It balances your own servers within one location.
Create one
- 1Deploy at least two servers in the same region (a load balancer needs targets to balance).
- 2Open a server → Networking tab → add a Load Balancer.
- 3Add your servers as targets and set the health check and forwarding rules.
- 4Point your domain's DNS at the load balancer's IP.
- It's created from a server's Networking tab, not the cart — you need at least one server first.
- Health checks stop sending traffic to an unhealthy server automatically and resume when it recovers.
- For edge caching, that's included free with Web Hosting — the load balancer isn't a CDN.