Load Balancing

Cloudflare Load Balancing distributes incoming traffic across multiple origin servers, with automatic failover and health monitoring.

Key Ideas

• Origin pools — Groups of servers with health checks
• Load balancer — Distributes traffic across pools based on steering policy
• Health checks — HTTP, HTTPS, or TCP monitors per pool
• Steering modes: Standard (weighted), Geo (geographic), Dynamic (performance), Proximity (latency)

Related

• Cloudflare — Platform overview
• Cdn — Content delivery