# Which load balancing solutions actually minimize server downtime and latency during traffic spikes rather than just theoretically handling load under ideal conditions?

            

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- Posted at: about 1 month ago
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### Comment 1

Agree that the surprise spike is the real test, the ideal-conditions numbers never tell you much. What's helped us most is keeping traffic off the origin in the first place. Edge options like Cloudflare soak up a big chunk of a sudden spike before it ever reaches your servers, so there's simply less that can fall over. On the load balancer side, HAProxy stayed the lightest under heavy load for us and didn't add latency when things got busy the way a couple of others did. Honestly the combination worked better than either on its own, the edge catching the surge and a lean load balancer handling whatever got through.

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- Posted at: 27 days ago
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