Whenever I see an article that says “you should NEVER do x” I typically treat it with a large pinch of salt. Plenty of people, myself included, use nginx as a

Whenever I see an article that says “you should NEVER do x” I typically treat it with a large pinch of salt. Plenty of people, myself included, use nginx as a load balancer and it’s absolutely fine. I’m sure there are lots of use cases where HAProxy would be a better choice, but there are also many use cases where nginx is at least as good a choice.