# Forge: New Load Balancer Features

DevFeed: [Forge: New Load Balancer Features](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/forge-new-load-balancer-features-3672.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://laravel.com/blog/forge-new-load-balancer-features>)

Author: Taylor Otwell

Published: 2020-08-12T15:06:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Laravel Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/laravel-blog.md>)

Topics: [Laravel](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/laravel.md>), [Server](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/server.md>), [PHP](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/php.md>), [MySQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mysql.md>), [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>), [Redis](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/redis.md>)

Tags: [backup](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backup.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [laravel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/laravel.md>), [load-balancer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/load-balancer.md>), [mysql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mysql.md>), [php](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/php.md>), [redis](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/redis.md>), [servers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/servers.md>)

## AI overview

Laravel Forge has added load balancer controls for customizing server traffic weights, designating backup servers, and pausing or resuming traffic to individual servers.

## Source excerpt

Beginning today, you may now customize the "weight" of your load balancer servers, indicating that some servers should serve more traffic than others. In addition, you may now specify servers as "bac...