API Features

• The load balancing service API is implemented using a RESTful web service interface.
• Like other products in the Rackspace Cloud suite, the cloud load balancing service shares a common token-based authentication system that allows seamless access between products and services.
• The API supports persistent connections.
• The load balancing API supports SSL termination, which allows customers to have their SSL traffic terminate at the load balancer.
• Content compression: request and response body data may be encoded with gzip compression in order to accelerate interactive performance of API calls and responses.
• The load balancing API supports both the JSON and XML data serialization formats.
• The load balancing service is a regionalized service, which allows for the caller to select a region to provision a load balancer into.