[gyepi]

> nginx and haproxy were really close, it's almost not significant enough to say that one is faster or better then the other. But if you look at it from an operations stand point. It's easier to deploy and manage a single nginx server instead of stud and haproxy

From an operations standpoint, haproxy has other features (failover, cli management, clustering) that actually makes it a much better load balancer. I usually install all three haproxy, stud, nginx because they are each very good in their specific niche. As for the simplicity of installation, that can be handled with a configuration manager.

[ominous_prime]

In fact, I've often used nginx in front of haproxy as an easy ssl offloader (this was before stud was as stable and complete as it is now).

HAProxy also has a raw tcp mode, which is great when you have to balance non-http services.