Michela Marie 🏳️🌈
@er1n HAProxy is mainly meant to be a highly efficient load balancer. It does that exquisitely well, and brings an enormous feature set to accomplish the task of balancing production HTTP/S and other TCP traffic.
I've used HAProxy to balance insane amounts of traffic and it has always handled those workloads with remarkable efficiency and resilience. It's also easy to configure and set up for high availability.
Michela Marie 🏳️🌈
@er1n Nginx is a fine web server -- and so it does that job very well -- while it does not have the features and capabilities of a dedicated load balancer like HAProxy (which is probably what most people are looking to do when setting it up as a reverse-proxy).
Michela Marie 🏳️🌈
@er1n
All that said, if you like and are very comfortable with Nginx, are not so familiar with HAProxy, and have relatively simple load balancing / reverse-proxy needs, then using Nginx for this purpose may work well for you -- to have one less different type of thing in your environment to learn about and manage.
Michela Marie 🏳️🌈
@er1n
All that said, if you like and are very comfortable with Nginx, are not so familiar with HAProxy, and have relatively simple load balancing / reverse-proxy needs, then using Nginx for this purpose may work well for you -- to have one less different type of thing in your environment to learn about and manage (as @elomatreb pointed out).
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