Network Types (Shared Load Balancers)

Description

Load balancers work on both public and private networks.

Shared load balancers support two network types as described in Table 1.

**Table 1** Shared load balancers and their network types
Network Type	Description
Public IPv4 network	Each load balancer has an IPv4 EIP bound to route requests from the Internet to backend servers.
Private IPv4 network	Each load balancer has only a private IPv4 address. It routes requests from the same VPC to backend servers.

Load balancing on a public network

You can bind an EIP to a load balancer so that it can receive requests from the Internet and route the requests to backend servers.

Figure 1 Load balancing on a public network

Load balancing on a private network

A load balancer has only a private IP address to receive requests from clients in a VPC and routes the requests to backend servers in the same VPC. This type of load balancers can only be accessed in a VPC.

Figure 2 Load balancing on a private network