Load Balancer
Load Balancers distribute incoming traffic across multiple servers to ensure no single server gets overwhelmed. This helps improve the performance and reliability of your applications by balancing the workload, which can prevent slowdowns or downtime. Load Balancers also provide redundancy—if one server goes down, traffic is automatically directed to other servers that are still running. This feature is especially useful for websites or applications with high traffic, as it keeps them running smoothly and efficiently.
To create a Load Balancer using the Antyxsoft Cloud Platform follow these steps:
From the side panel click on Load Balancer.
Click on the plus (+) button located on the top right, you will be presented with the Load Balancer creation menu.
- First chose the Project you want the Load Balancer to be created for.
- Then you'll have to select the datacenter location where the Load Balancer will be created.
- Next, you have to select the Network you want to create the Load Balancer for.
In the next step you can aquire a new IP address or select from an address that you already have own for the Load Balancer.
Now set the Forwarding Rules.
- Name: A name for the load balancer rule.
- Public Port: The port that receives the incoming traffic to be balanced.
- Private Port: The port that the VMs will use to receive the traffic.
- Algorithm: Choose the load balancing algorithm you want to use. supports the following well-known algorithms:
- Round-robin
- Least Connections
- Source
- Stickiness (Optional): Choose the algorithm for the stickiness policy. A sticky session load balancer ensures a user's requests are consistently routed to the same server during their session.
- Add VMs: Select two or more VMs that will divide the load of incoming traffic, and click Apply.
The new load balancing rule will appear in the list. You can repeat these steps to add more load balancing rules for this IP address.
Finally, enter a name for the Load Balancer, set the Billing Cycle and click on Review & Deploy.
