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title: "Load Balancers Overview | Hostman Docs"
description: "Learn how to set up load balancers to distribute traffic across your servers. With this guide, you can ensure optimal performance for your cloud services."
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Load balancers let you distribute incoming traffic across multiple servers to increase the availability and fault tolerance of your service.

The main benefits of load balancing are:

-   Horizontal scaling.
    
-   Load balancing for TCP sessions.
    
-   Support for HTTP, HTTP2, HTTPS, TCP ports.
    
-   Enhanced fault tolerance of your application server
    

WIth Hostman load balancers, you can balance traffic between both Hostman and third-party servers.

Once the balancer is set up, it will be assigned a public IP address. You will need to use this address as the application server address and redirect your domain name to it.