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Akamai Linode NodeBalancers

Manage scale with transparent traffic distribution.

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Overview

NodeBalancers are a managed Load Balancing as a Service (LBaaS) offering from Akamai's Linode. They intelligently distribute incoming requests across multiple backend Linode compute instances to eliminate single points of failure. This enables high availability, horizontal scaling, and simplifies maintenance for any application hosted on the Linode cloud platform.

✨ Key Features

  • Round Robin, Least Connections, and Source IP routing algorithms
  • Session Stickiness
  • Active and Passive Health Checks
  • SSL Termination and Passthrough
  • Support for TCP and HTTP/HTTPS traffic
  • Dedicated IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
  • Configuration via API

🎯 Key Differentiators

  • Simple, predictable, and affordable pricing
  • Developer-friendly interface and API
  • Excellent customer support

Unique Value: Makes high availability simple and affordable with a fully managed, easy-to-use load balancing solution featuring predictable pricing.

🎯 Use Cases (4)

Ensuring high availability for websites and applications Horizontally scaling web server capacity Performing zero-downtime maintenance and deployments Distributing traffic for any TCP-based service (e.g., databases, game servers)

✅ Best For

  • Load balancing a fleet of web servers for a high-traffic blog or e-commerce site
  • Providing a highly available endpoint for a Kubernetes cluster
  • Scaling backend API servers

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Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:

  • Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) across different data centers
  • Advanced Layer 7 routing (e.g., path-based routing)
  • Applications requiring a Web Application Firewall (WAF)

🏆 Alternatives

DigitalOcean Load Balancers Vultr Load Balancers AWS ELB Google Cloud Load Balancing

Offers a much simpler and more cost-effective solution than major cloud providers, but is limited to the Linode ecosystem and lacks advanced features like GSLB or WAF.

💻 Platforms

Web API

🔌 Integrations

Linode Compute Instances Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE) Linode API Terraform

🛟 Support Options

  • ✓ Email Support
  • ✓ Phone Support
  • ✓ Dedicated Support (NA tier)

🔒 Compliance & Security

✓ SOC 2 ✓ HIPAA ✓ BAA Available ✓ GDPR ✓ ISO 27001 ✓ SSO ✓ SOC 2 ✓ ISO 27001 ✓ PCI DSS ✓ HIPAA

💰 Pricing

$10.00/mo

Free tier: NA

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