> The only "real" reason you need a loadbalancer is that you want to save IP addresses. What?! Load balancers tend to be in place for availability and scalabil

> The only "real" reason you need a loadbalancer is that you want to save IP addresses. What?! Load balancers tend to be in place for availability and scalability reasons, not to save IP addresses. Sure, there are many use cases where you might not need to have public IPs on the backends a load balancer is sending traffic to, but to say that's the only "real" reason for a load balancer seems to be missing the point.