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# Load Balancing

Distribute traffic, stay fast, stay up — flat $15/mo per instance, no egress fees.

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## Overview

Spread traffic across your VMs for high availability and zero-downtime deploys, with DDoS monitoring built in. Flat per-instance pricing in Canadian dollars — no capacity units, no per-connection math, and no bandwidth bill.

## What's included

- TCP and TCP Proxy (Layer 4) load balancing
- Source, round robin, or least connections
- Session stickiness (LbCookie, SourceBased)
- DDoS monitoring included
- Zero egress fees on balanced traffic
- Flat $15/mo per instance

 [Technical documentation](https://docs.zcp.zsoftly.ca/public-cloud/load-balancer/)

## Why teams choose Load Balancing

Flat $15/mo per instance. No LCU, capacity-unit, per-connection, or egress charges.

### Deploy in minutes

Select instances, set forwarding rules, and go — no capacity planning.

### No bandwidth bill

Zero egress fees. Traffic through your load balancer is never metered.

### DDoS monitoring included

Threat monitoring on every load balancer at no extra cost.

### Flat, simple pricing

$15/mo per instance — no LCU, capacity-unit, or per-connection charges to decode.

## Load Balancing features

Everything you need to build and scale.

### Protocol support

TCP and TCP Proxy — fast Layer-4 routing, with TCP Proxy preserving the client source IP.

### Configurable algorithms

Source, round robin, or least connections.

### Session stickiness

LbCookie, SourceBased, or none — pin a client to one backend when you need to.

### Flexible forwarding rules

Map a public port to a private port, with as many rules as you need.

### Multi-instance backends

Distribute across two or more compute instances.

### Acquire or reuse an IP

Acquire a new IP or choose an existing one, then manage it from the portal.

## How Load Balancing compares

See why teams choose ZSoftly Cloud Platform.

| Capability | Why it matters |
| --- | --- |
| Zero egress fees | AWS and Azure charge per GB through their load balancers — we do not. |
| No per-rule fees | Add as many forwarding rules as you need at no extra cost. |
| DDoS monitoring included | Basic threat monitoring at no additional charge. |
| Simple, flat pricing | $15/mo per instance — no LCU, capacity-unit, or connection charges. |
| Sovereign Canadian infrastructure | Your traffic routes through infrastructure ZSoftly owns in Canada. |

## Use cases for Load Balancing

- High-availability web applications
- API traffic distribution across backend servers
- Multi-server application deployments
- Blue-green and rolling deployments
- E-commerce and SaaS with variable traffic

## How Load Balancing works

1. 1

   ### Select an IP address

   Acquire a new IP or choose an existing one for the load balancer.
2. 2

   ### Set forwarding rules

   Name the rule, pick TCP or TCP Proxy, and map a public port to a private port.
3. 3

   ### Choose algorithm and stickiness

   Source, round robin, or least connections — with LbCookie, SourceBased, or no stickiness.
4. 4

   ### Select backend instances

   Pick two or more compute instances to balance across.
5. 5

   ### Name and create

   Give it a name and create — traffic starts flowing immediately.

## Get started with Load Balancing

Launch in minutes, scale when ready.

- Sign up and create a load balancer in minutes
- Acquire an IP and set TCP or TCP Proxy forwarding rules
- Choose your algorithm and session stickiness
- Contact us for enterprise or government configurations

Load balancing for $15/mo per instance. No LCU fees, no egress charges, no surprises.

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