Question
Should I use CloudFlare Load Balancer or DigitalOcean Load Balancer?
- Posted on May 21, 2018
- Load Balancing
Asked by Mateus Calza
Is it better for the load balancer to be next to droplets in DigitalOcean or to CloudFlare (which manages the DNS of my domain)?
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These two products provide some differing features:
DO Load Balancer:
CloudFlare:
Both services provide good features for their price points so you will want to decide which way to go based on which features are most important for your use case.
Hi there,
In addition to what Ryan has mentioned, a quick update here, DigitalOcean has announced new Global Load Balancers (currently in beta) which will allow you to distribute traffic to Droplets in different regions for high availability (HA) and performance.
Whereas regional load balancers distribute traffic within a single region, global load balancers span multiple regions and route users to your nearest available backend Droplet.
For more information you can check out this documentaiton here:
Or check out this introduction video here:
- Bobby
You may also want to consider AWS Load Balancers. They have a free tier. (http://aws.amazon.com)