Vultr Load Balancers are fully managed services that distribute incoming network traffic across multiple Vultr cloud instances within the same region, improving application availability, reliability, and scalability. They support TCP, HTTP, and HTTPS protocols and are designed to simplify the deployment and management of load balancing for cloud-based applications.

Key Features

Fully Managed Service No manual setup or maintenance required; Vultr handles all management tasks.

• Automatic provisioning and configuration
• Centralized management via Vultr dashboard

Multi-Protocol Support Supports TCP, HTTP, and HTTPS traffic.

• Flexible for web and application workloads
• Enables secure and non-secure traffic balancing

Regional Load Balancing Distributes traffic within the same Vultr data center region.

• Ensures low latency for users
• Instances and load balancer must be in the same region

Health Checks Monitors the health of backend instances.

• Automatically removes unhealthy instances from rotation
• Maintains high availability

Forwarding Rules Customizable rules for routing traffic.

• Define how traffic is distributed to backend instances
• Supports round-robin and least connections algorithms

Scalability Easily add or remove backend instances as needed.

• Supports horizontal scaling for growing workloads
• Simple instance management via dashboard or API

Benefits

High Availability Ensures applications remain accessible even if some instances fail.

• Automatic failover and health monitoring
• Reduces risk of downtime

Improved Performance Balances traffic to prevent server overload.

• Optimizes resource utilization
• Enhances user experience with lower latency

Operational Simplicity Reduces complexity of managing load balancing infrastructure.

• No need for manual configuration or maintenance
• Centralized control through Vultr dashboard