Find out more about the brand new OVHcloud Load Balancer solution.
The new OVHcloud Load Balancer is a reliable service, with versatile configurations. You just need to configure your products with the OVHcloud Load Balancer, and we’ll take care of the rest.
Instructions
This new solution is based on the robust open-source solution: HAProxy. There are no limits to what you can do! The new OVHcloud Load Balancer solution can be used to work with a variety of protocols:
| Type | Description | Advantages | Technology |
| HTTP | All HTTP/HTTPS web services | Optimized for L7 (application layer) processing | HAProxy |
| TCP | For any network services that aren't HTTP | Supports all TCP applications | HAProxy |
With this new solution, you will get:
- OVHcloud anti-DDoS protection
- your services replicated worldwide (Anycast)
- advanced HTTP/HTTPS support (redirections, headers, ACL, etc.)
- a service compatible with an Additional IP
- vRack supported
- redundancy - your Load Balancer functions on separate instances, working individually on isolated, redundant hardware
Basic parts
The new OVHcloud Load Balancer solution is made up of three basic parts:
| Basic Part | Function |
| Front-end | The front-end defines the protocol type (HTTP/TCP) of the OVHcloud Load Balancer service. This part also has the service’s listening port. |
| Server cluster | The server cluster receives the incoming traffic from the front-end. This part takes care of the load balancing. |
| Server | These are the servers that receive the final traffic and respond via the application. |
With these three basic parts that make up the Load Balancer, you can configure it to use nearly all possible load-balancing methods.
Why use the OVHcloud Load Balancer?
Balance the load
This is the basic function of a load balancer, but the OVHcloud Load Balancer offers much more.
Eliminate downtime
The OVHcloud Load Balancer service can automatically detect when a server is not responding. When this happens, it redirects incoming traffic to another server, if possible. This resolves the problem without affecting your website.
Scale your infrastructure easily
You can add or remove server clusters, front-ends, or servers from the OVHcloud Load Balancer solution without interrupting your service.
Make maintenance easier
If there is any maintenance scheduled for your solution, you can now easily place a server cluster in downtime mode to prevent it from receiving traffic. If you need to do this, it’s easy to add your server again once the maintenance has finished.
Combine your services
You can now combine various OVHcloud services in the Load Balancer, for example:
- Public Cloud instances with Additional IPs
- VPS with Additional IPs
- Dedicated servers with Additional IPs
- vRacks
Anycast
You can balance your load across a variety of geographical zones.
Distribute any kind of traffic
The OVHcloud Load Balancer doesn’t just work with HTTP traffic anymore! You can now use it with all traffic types.
Email server
Balance the load between your email servers.
Databases
Balance your databases, and make them redundant.
Go further
Find out more about load balancing.
For more information and tutorials, please see our other OVHcloud Load Balancer guides or explore the guides for other OVHcloud products and services.