An ADC uses different techniques to enhance performance, one of which includes load balancing. Through load balancing, ADCs are able to speed up application delivery. It is used to distribute incoming requests across a group of servers after the requests have been sent sequentially to the servers in a list by way of a simple algorithm. The requests are allocated to a resource from an application delivery platform. How the load balancer allocates the session is based on metrics like the geographic location of an endpoint device making the request, or on metrics like current server load or the current network latency. ADC load balancing ensures that requests are shared over available data centers and servers evenly, even when multiple geographic hosting centers are being used simultaneously.