@mkrieger

The DigitalOcean Load Balancers are very basic (as of this response) and only handle the basics, such as Round Robin, Least Connections, and Sticky Sessions (via a Cookie).

They are not yet configurable in a way that routes based on location using GeoIP or similar and there isn’t a way to configure them granularly as you would a custom instance.

This may change in the future since they are still relatively new. In the mean time, I’d recommend that you add the suggestion to the box by submitting a post to the feedback community.

That being said, from looking over the community, one of the biggest requests thus far is enabling support for HTTP/2 on the Load Balancers as they are still, from what I can see, using 1/1.1. That’s also something you can gain from a custom instance, such as what you’ve got and will lose if you switch (for now).

https://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocean/suggestions/18267991-support-http-2-on-load-balancers

I would have loved the same. But as you’re after it I figured I’d point you to CloudFlare’s load balancer which is as they say ‘around the corner’ and supports this + a lot more:
https://www.cloudflare.com/load-balancing/

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