⚡ Load Balancers in South Africa

A load balancer is a software program or device that distributes network traffic across a number of "backend" servers, providing improved scaling and network resilience.

South Africa is an African country with a population of over 60 million people.

According to our statistics, load balancers are used on 4% of websites from South Africa.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top load balancers in South Africa in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Varnish with a share of 27.8%, followed by Google Cloud Load Balancer with 27% and Application Request Routing with 13.7%.

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top load balancers that are more popular in South Africa than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

✨ Best Load Balancers

Below is a more detailed list of 14 load balancers used on sites from South Africa, ranked by their market share.

RankNameMarket share
1
Varnish
Stockholm, Sweden

An open-source web application accelerator, also known as a caching HTTP reverse proxy.

FreeOpen source$1,500+/year
2
Google Cloud Load Balancer
Mountain View, California, United States

Distributes user traffic across virtual machine instances in the same region.
3
Application Request Routing
Redmond, Washington, United States

A module for Internet Information Server that can load-balance between multiple servers in a server farm.
4
AWS Elastic Load Balancer
Seattle, Washington, United States

Automatically distributes incoming traffic across multiple targets, such as EC2 instances, containers, and IP addresses.

Free$$$
5
Envoy
San Francisco, California, United States

A high-performance, open source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications and large microservice "service mesh" architectures.

FreeOpen source
6
Azure Front Door
Redmond, Washington, United States

A cloud content delivery network service that offers Layer 7 load-balancing capabilities.

$35+/month
7
F5 BIG-IP
Seattle, Washington, United States

An enterprise-grade application delivery controller and full reverse proxy platform for managing, securing, and optimizing web and API traffic.

$3,200+/year
8
Azure Application Gateway
Redmond, Washington, United States

A managed web traffic load balancer and full reverse proxy that enables scalable, highly available, and secure web application delivery on Azure.

$0.0255+/hour
9
Sucuri CloudProxy
Tempe, Arizona, United States

A website application firewall that stops bad actors, speeds up load times, and increases website availability.
10
HAProxy
Newton, Massachusetts, United States

A high-performance reverse proxy and load balancer for TCP- and HTTP-based applications.

FreeOpen source$$$
11
Heroku Vegur
San Francisco, California, United States

Open-source proxy and load balancing software.

FreeOpen source
12
Ivanti vADC
South Jordan, Utah, United States

A software-based application delivery controller solution that delivers applications with predictable performance and strong multi-layered security and includes Virtual Traffic Manager, Services Director and Web Application Firewall.

$$$
13
Squid
Westminster, Colorado, United States

A caching proxy for the web that supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more.

FreeOpen source
14
Barracuda Load Balancer ADC
Campbell, California, United States

A unified high-performance platform that helps organizations achieve their availability, acceleration, application control, and application security objectives.

$7,000+/year

👉 See Also

Data is based on the analysis of 17,795 websites from South Africa.
Statistics were last calculated on .
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.