Hostname preparation

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Before setting up anything related to your load balancer, make sure your test that production hostnames meet the following criteria:

• Based on the priority order of DNS records, they will receive the intended amount of traffic.
• Each hostname is covered by an SSL/TLS certificate.

After confirming each of these conditions are met, you can proceed with setting up your load balancer.

​​ Routing strategy

Depending on your preferences and infrastructure, you might route traffic to your load balancer in different ways:

• For most customers, it’s simpler to create the load balancer on the hostname directly (www.example.com).
• However, you could also create the load balancer on another hostname (lb.example.com) and then route traffic using a CNAME record on test.example.com that points to lb.example.com.