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Updated Load Balancing Options (markdown)

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## Your Load Balancing Options
So the servers are sorted from quickest to slowest. The load balancing is done using that list. You have a choice of 4 different ranges/sets from which to chose the server that will next be queried. The server is chosen randomly inside that set. The 4 possible values of the `lb_strategy =` parameter are:
So the servers are sorted from quickest to slowest. The load balancing is done using that list. You have a choice of 4 different ranges/sets from which to chose the server that will next be queried. The server is chosen randomly inside that set. The 4 possible values of the `lb_strategy` parameter are:
* **fastest** (always pick the one fastest server in the list)
* **p2** (randomly chose between the top 2 fastest servers)
* **ph** (randomly chose between the top fastest half of all servers)
* **random** (just pick any random server from the list)
This setting is a string, so you use `lb_strategy = 'p2'` in the configuration file.
The default strategy is **p2** so `DNSCrypt-Proxy` will pick one of the two fastest servers. It will compare how fast that server was with a randomly chosen server and if that random server is faster, the random server will move up. The same is true for all strategies - random servers will move up in the list when they are faster than the server that was just queried.
## Some Remarks