Hi, The reason is simple: You need a load-balancer. HAProxy is a load-balancer with advanced features: many weighted algorithm, many different persistence type (even using application cookies), advanced reporting, etc... Nginx isn't, despite very basic features, a load-balancer. That said, it can be used in simple deployment..
cheers On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 2:14 PM, shouldbe q931 <[email protected]> wrote: > How about going the other way and fully commenting the config, sending it to > them and asking them how they would implement all of the things that you are > using in HAProxy in nginx. > > If they pass it back to you as "that's your job", then you can reasonably > ask them that as you have a working solution in HAProxy, would this not be a > waste of resource ? > > You could even suggest that it might be better for the organisation to move > to using HAProxy instead of nginx for its advanced reverse proxy and load > balancing capabilities. >
