title: Load Balancers -> Overview

## Overview ##

Load Balancer API allows you to manage Load Balancers as a service and services such as
[Rackspace Cloud Load Balancers][1], [GoGrid Load Balancers][2] and [Ninefold
Load Balancers][3].

### Terminology ###

* **LoadBalancer** - represents a load balancer instance.
* **Member** - represents a load balancer member.
* **Algorithm** - represents a load balancing algorithm (round-robin, random,
* etc.).

[1]: http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/loadbalancers/
[2]: http://www.gogrid.com/cloud-hosting/load-balancers.php
[3]: https://ninefold.com/support/display/SPT/Load+Balancing