By jediD83
I followed the simple Digital Ocean Load Balance guides up to Manage Regional where I thought by simply changing the Cloudflare DNS A’s from the Droplet’s IP Address to the Load Balancer’s IP Address will do, but the status is down according to the Network page.
The Private Network interface is enabled. Both Droplet & Balancer used the same regions. I am using the Default Advanced Settings too.
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Hi there,
Switching the A record to the Load Balancer IP is correct, but if the status shows as down, it’s usually a health check issue.
You must double-check that your Droplet is responding on the port and path the LB is checking (default is / on port 80 or 443).
Also, make sure any firewall (UFW or cloud firewall) allows traffic from the Load Balancer.
Let me know how it goes.
- Bobby
Heya, @jedid83
If you’re using Cloudflare proxied (orange cloud) mode, it can interfere with DigitalOcean health checks. You can try setting the A record to DNS only (gray cloud) temporarily to test.
Regards
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