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DigitalOcean Load Balancer vs Pound: What are the differences?
What is DigitalOcean Load Balancer? Scale your applications and improve availability across your infrastructure in a few clicks. Load Balancers are a highly available, fully-managed service that work right out of the box and can be deployed as fast as a Droplet. Load Balancers distribute incoming traffic across your infrastructure to increase your application's availability.
What is Pound? A reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTPS front-end for Web server(s). Pound was developed to enable distributing the load among several Web-servers and to allow for a convenient SSL wrapper for those Web servers that do not offer it natively.
DigitalOcean Load Balancer and Pound belong to "Load Balancer / Reverse Proxy" category of the tech stack.
Cons of DigitalOcean Load Balancer
- No Let's Encrypt wildcard certificate support1