I mostly work on small scale stuff. There is nothing to load balance if you only have one machine :D And for development you probably don't want to use a CDN.

I mostly work on small scale stuff. There is nothing to load balance if you only have one machine :D And for development you probably don't want to use a CDN. Edit: it just occurred to me that a load balancer is nothing but a reverse proxy anyway. Running on a different machine usually, but not really different from nginx on the local machine from the point of view of the application software.