Load Balancing and Failover: load-balance and fallback Groups

Beyond manual select and url-test, mihomo offers two advanced group types: load-balance spreads traffic across several nodes, fallback switches to a backup when the primary dies.

load-balance

Best with several same-region nodes: connections are distributed to relieve per-node speed caps. Set strategy to consistent-hashing (one site sticks to one node — recommended) or round-robin.

fallback

Uses the first healthy node in the list; when it fails, traffic drops to the next, and returns when the primary recovers. Perfect for a fast-primary-plus-safe-backup pairing.

Which to pick

• Never-drop stability: fallback
• Squeeze bandwidth from many nodes: load-balance
• Most users: a url-test auto-select group is honestly enough