Starting today, DigitalOcean’s Global HTTP Load Balancer (GLB) is now generally available for all customers. Whether you are scaling a rapidly growing business or optimizing an existing application, the GLB offers a streamlined solution to enhance application availability, improve resiliency, and reduce latency for your users, regardless of their location.

As digital businesses expand, there is a growing need for high availability, seamless traffic failover, and enhanced resilience across global deployments. Traditional global load balancing solutions can often be complex, costly, and over-engineered for businesses in their growth phase. DigitalOcean addresses this gap by offering a simple, cost-effective GLB designed to meet the core needs of businesses while maintaining ease of use.

Optimize Traffic Distribution for Faster Response Times

The GLB distributes HTTP/s traffic across globally deployed Droplets, ensuring that user requests are routed to the region closest to the end user. This significantly reduces latency and accelerates the delivery of web applications, providing a seamless experience for users around the world.

Support for Kubernetes (DOKS) Clusters (Beta)

For users running DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) clusters, the GLB integrates effortlessly via regional Load Balancers (LBaaS). This integration routes traffic based on proximity to your end users, minimizing latency while maintaining global availability.

Built-in Multi-Region Failover

In the event of a data center outage or server failure, the GLB automatically reroutes traffic to healthy servers in other regions. This dynamic failover capability helps ensure business continuity and minimizes disruption, providing a robust solution for maintaining your services.

Autoscaling for Demand Spikes

The GLB dynamically scales to handle increased load during traffic surges without the need for manual intervention. This ensures that your infrastructure remains responsive to user demands, maintaining performance stability during peak times.

Enhanced Performance with Edge Caching

The GLB includes edge caching, which accelerates the delivery of static assets for globally distributed users. This feature improves website load times and ensures a consistent experience, regardless of user location.

Advanced Traffic Control

You have the flexibility to set traffic distribution priorities based on your application’s architecture. Whether you choose active/active or active/passive configurations, you can optimize performance and decide how requests should be routed between data centers.

Enhanced Security

The GLB provides built-in DDoS protection, safeguarding your applications from malicious traffic and supporting compliance with industry security standards.

With DigitalOcean’s GLB, setting up is simple. In just a few steps, you can provision a global HTTP load balancer, connect your domain, and define Droplets or regional LBaaS as backend targets. Start distributing your traffic across globally distributed workloads with ease.

Transparent Pricing

DigitalOcean’s Global Load Balancer offers transparent and predictable pricing. The base plan costs $15 per month and includes 1 TB of CDN data transfer, 25 million GLB requests, and supports 5 domains. As your needs grow, affordable overage options are available at $0.02 per GB of CDN data transfer, $0.14 per additional domain, and $0.7 per million GLB requests. This pricing model allows you to focus on scaling your application without worrying about unpredictable costs. For more detailed information, refer to the pricing documentation.

Getting Started

Start using DigitalOcean’s Global Load Balancer today and take advantage of enhanced global resiliency, faster performance, and built-in security, all at a price that fits your budget. For a step-by-step guide, visit the product documentation or reach out to DigitalOcean’s sales team for migration support and architecture reviews.

In summary, DigitalOcean’s new Global HTTP Load Balancer (GLB) offers a powerful, yet simple solution to many of the challenges faced by growing digital businesses. Its ability to distribute traffic efficiently, support Kubernetes clusters, provide multi-region failover, dynamically scale with demand, enhance performance with edge caching, and offer advanced traffic control and security features makes it an attractive option for businesses looking to improve their global application performance. With transparent pricing and ease of setup, the GLB is designed to help you focus on what matters most: growing and optimizing your business.

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