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Account Load Balancing updates.

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PR Change Summary

Updated documentation for Account Load Balancing with clarifications on public and private load balancers, including their DNS record handling and limitations.

  • Clarified the differences between public and private load balancers, including DNS record handling.
  • Added information about limitations for load balancers deployed to the China Network.
  • Specified that private load balancers do not receive automatic DNS records and require internal DNS configuration.
  • Included notes on session affinity support being exclusive to public load balancers.

Modified Files

  • src/content/docs/load-balancing/additional-options/load-balancing-china.mdx
  • src/content/docs/load-balancing/load-balancers/dns-records.mdx
  • src/content/docs/load-balancing/load-balancers/index.mdx
  • src/content/docs/load-balancing/private-network/index.mdx
  • src/content/docs/load-balancing/understand-basics/load-balancing-components.mdx
  • src/content/partials/load-balancing/dns-load-balancing-limitations.mdx
  • src/content/partials/load-balancing/layer-7-load-balancing-benefits.mdx
  • src/content/partials/load-balancing/load-balancer-create.mdx
  • src/content/partials/load-balancing/load-balancer-definition.mdx
  • src/content/partials/load-balancing/session-affinity-definition.mdx

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2. Select **Create Load Balancer**.

3. On the **Hostname** page:
3. On the **Load Balancer Setup** page select the type of Load Balancer.
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I think we need to further update this section to reflect the minor differences in the configuration path for Public and Private Load Balancers

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@ncrouch-cflare I created two different sections, one for public and another one for private lb.

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@angelampcosta angelampcosta merged commit 93c64df into production Jun 3, 2025
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@angelampcosta angelampcosta deleted the angela/lb-updates branch June 3, 2025 10:04
sdnts pushed a commit to sdnts/cloudflare-docs that referenced this pull request Jul 24, 2025
* LB updates

* Apply suggestions from code review

Co-authored-by: Pedro Sousa <[email protected]>

* Update src/content/docs/load-balancing/load-balancers/dns-records.mdx

* Adds more info to create a public and a private lb

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Co-authored-by: Pedro Sousa <[email protected]>
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