First off I am a developer not a dev op so don’t have previous experience but have been lumped with a last minute urgent request to get a page live which is likely to get a lot of traffic when the page is marketed. The page is a very simple static page so has been uploaded to Cloudflare Pages. I now really need to get load balancing set up on a Cloudflare Pages instance asap. Having followed the tutorials when setting up a load balancer pool I don’t understand how to link the Cloudflare Page instance to the origin server in the pool for load balancing? I am baffled by the concept and thought this would be an automatic thing that could be set up for pages as the server and load balancing all belong to Cloudflare. Am I missing something?
Many thanks in advance to anyone that can help with this.
Thanks for coming back so quickly. So you don’t need to set up load balancing on a site hosted via Cloudflare Pages, is that right as it does it’s own internal load balancing?
Are you trying to load balance Pages itself or an origin + Pages?
If it’s just Pages, no load balancing is required. We’ll infinitely scale automatically.
If you are load balancing between Pages and an origin, I’m not sure this is really possible. Pages isn’t an origin server so there’s no IP to point to.
No just trying to apply load balancing on the domain that I had transferred into Cloudflare DNS and is the custom domain I am using for a static Pages site I am also hosting on Cloudflare Pages. As you say though it looks like perhaps Cloudflare Pages sites don’t need load balancing applied as they scale automatically.