HAProxy vs. Nginx

Question

I was looking at using HAProxy and Nginx for load balancing, and I had some questions:

• Should I use JUST HAProxy over Nginx for the proxy server?
• Is there

Answer 1

HAProxy is definitely the better, more fully featured loadbalancer (compared to the free nginx, not nginx plus (but one could argue that as well).

One thing that HAProxy sadly still can't do is generic UDP connections. So we used HAProxy and nginx on our logging lbs. But HAProxy released support for syslog/udp in 2.3 so we are about to change that. :)