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