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I've played with both over time, and I was never comfortable with HAProxy's performance.
by ddragosd 8y ago
I've played with both over time, and I was never comfortable with HAProxy's performance.
- tomohawk 8y agoAs a load balancer, haproxy is usually what you want. It has more tools in the bag for those use cases. As for performormance, my experience is that haproxy outperforms nginx in the load balance cases. You have to go out of your way to configure nginx to get close. Here's an interesting comparison: https://www.loggly.com/blog/benchmarking-5-popular-load-balancers-nginx-haproxy-envoy-traefik-and-alb/ https://www.loggly.com/blog/benchmarking-5-popular-load-bala...
- jimjag 8y agoI especially love how the benchmark totally addresses the "events are always good and threads are always bad" FUD... Performance is a balance, not a simple, knee-jerk pronouncement.