> Oddly enough, I have the exact opposite perception. Ditto, especially if you consider the OpenResty "variant" of Nginx. Also, I realize Nginx does a good jo

> Oddly enough, I have the exact opposite perception. Ditto, especially if you consider the OpenResty "variant" of Nginx. Also, I realize Nginx does a good job of being a load balancer / reverse proxy, but to me it will always be a "web server" first. HAProxy on the other hand is built and optimized specifically to be a "load balancer / reverse proxy" first.