Load Balancing

Cloudflare’s load balancer handles global traffic steering, health checks, failover, and session affinity dependably. Geographic and latency-based steering work as advertised. Health checks from multiple regions give you a trustworthy view of each origin.

The pricing model shows its age: billed per origin and per DNS query bucket in a way that feels disconnected from the rest of the platform, and costs creep up quickly as you add pools and monitors.

The UI has not kept up. Managing many pools across several load balancers gets tedious, and larger setups soon move to Terraform. It is a solid product that needs a refresh.