Load Balancing in Nginx

From the Nginx cheat sheet · Reverse Proxy · verified Jul 2026

Load Balancing

Distributing traffic across multiple servers

nginx

upstream backend {
    server 10.0.0.1:8080;
    server 10.0.0.2:8080;
    server 10.0.0.3:8080;
}

server {
    location / {
        proxy_pass http://backend;
    }
}

⚖️ Distributes load across multiple servers

🔄 Multiple load balancing algorithms available

💔 Automatic failover with health checks

🎯 Session persistence with ip_hash

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