I am new to Linode and I love it, that is first, second I have 2 Linodes one : 2048 with 2 websites and 1 1024 for testing or whatever. I have search and search and read and repeat the search and read about the Nodebalancer, believe me I don't understand nothing of it. I want .. what do I want ... I don't know, the VPS with 2 websites are running fine, but I want to trying out everything.

So how can a Nodebalancer help me with performance, my VPS is in Fermont because my visitors are most from California and also outside that, but most of them are in USA. So I want to balance the traffic, visitors from New York get the content from the closest server in New York if that is possible I will add a server in New York too. Can a Nodebalancer help me with this. Or can you also use a Nodebalancer for 1 VPS and what does it do ? I can't find it and the information that is on this website about Nodebalancer is just for me hocus spocus

Regards
Danielle

The NodeBalancer and all sites behind it must be in the same datacenter. So you cannot serve a Fremont node and a Newark node through the same NodeBalancer.

NodeBalancer also does not serve as a content distribution network (CDN). A CDN tries to serve content from as close to the requester as possible. I have no personal experience with them, but CloudFlare gets mentioned frequently.

What a NodeBalancer does is balance traffic between multiple nodes serving the same web site*. If a node goes down, the NodeBalancer will stop sending traffic there so your users don't see downtime. If you have a problem with your server getting overloaded or crashing frequently, and tweaking your application's behavior doesn't solve the problem, and you can set up multiple nodes to serve the same data, a NodeBalancer may be useful.

*Actually, it works for other network applications too, not just the web.