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title: "Introducing: Load Balancing! 🛰️"
url: "https://ploi.io/news/introducing-load-balancing"
published: "2019-03-08"
last_updated: "2023-01-23"
---

# Introducing: Load Balancing! 🛰️

We are very proud to introduce load balancing!

**Load balancing?**

In a nutshell; Load balancing is a way to evenly distribute traffic between several servers to reduce load on your webservers and have a higher uptime. You have 1 load balancing server that distributes the traffic between the assigned webservers.

![](https://ploi.io/storage/43/loadbalancing.png)

It is now possible to install your own load balancer and assign servers to the load balancer, we have made it a breeze to set this up. Even Let’s Encrypt support has completely been taken care of.

**How do I create a load balancer in Ploi?**

Head over to the server creation screen and select your provider. In the server detail form you will see a type field where you can specify the type of the server. Select Load Balancer and you're all set!

![](https://ploi.io/storage/44/Image-2019-03-08-at-12.25.48-PM.png)