We use nginx as a load balancer on its own machine and distribute requests to a small farm of machines running windows/iis. Nginx is great as a load balancer,

We use nginx as a load balancer on its own machine and distribute requests to a small farm of machines running windows/iis. Nginx is great as a load balancer, not quite as sophisticated as HAProxy but the SSL support is good and it gets the job done pretty well. I'm sure we're not the only ones.