DigitalOcean launches Load Balancers for Production Workloads

DigitalOcean has released Load Balancers. Load Balancers is a highly available product that enables developers and small businesses to distribute traffic across their infrastructure to achieve 100% uptime for their production workloads.

DigitalOcean is approaching one million registered users with more than 40,000 active teams since releasing its cloud five years ago. With workloads becoming more complex, DigitalOcean is focussed on delivering the tools and performance that are required to seamlessly deploy, scale and manage any sized application.

“We are quickly expanding the capabilities of our cloud to support larger scale-out applications,” said Julia Austin, CTO, DigitalOcean. “With Load Balancers, we are providing developers and businesses with a simple service for maximizing the availability and reliability of applications without disrupting the end-user experience. Load Balancers is the first major new product DigitalOcean has released this year. Over the coming year, you’ll see us continue to release a number of important products and features to meet our customers’ high availability, data storage, security, and networking needs.”

Load Balancers on DigitalOcean can be created effortlessly from the control panel or API – no additional installation or configuration is needed. Using Load Balancers to distribute connections enables developers and small businesses to scale their applications horizontally by sending traffic only to healthy Droplets, ensuring no single point of failure and increasing availability across their infrastructure.

With Load Balancers, developers have access to support for multiple protocols, including HTTP, HTTPS, and TCP. They have also access to managed TLS certificates. 

Load Balancers on DigitalOcean are priced at $20 per month with no additional bandwidth charges and are available in all data center regions.