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It's possible to write very complex rules/ACLs with HAproxy... stick-tables, ACLs with regexes on whatever HTTP header, source or destination ACLs, map files, geoblocking, lua scripting, load-balancing from round-robin to host header load balancing, dynamic backend servers provisionning through DNS... Not that you can't do it with Nginx (it started as a reverse-proxy before becoming a jack of all trades), nor that nginx isn't a great tool (it is!), but HAProxy can do very complex things too. It also follows the good ol' UNIX philosophy of "one program to do one thing and do it well" and thus doesn't try to be a webserver, hence why you need a webserver behind it to serve anything from static files to PHP/Python/whatever.