HAProxy vs nginx

HAProxy is a superior load balancer to nginx. HAProxy can do out-of-band health checks, whereas nginx only knows a backend to be "down" when it serves a 500. Also, HAProxy is a general TCP load balancer, whereas nginx will work only on HTTP traffic.

 Others in this thread say that nginx does "complicated tasks" better, but chances are, if you're doing a "complicated task" in your load balancer, you've made a mistake somewhere in your application design.

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I'm Ethan Mariano a software engineer by profession and reader/writter by passion.I have good understanding and knowledge of AngularJS, Database, javascript, web development, digital marketing and exploring other technologies related to Software development.