Ask HN: Do you use Nginx in production? or have you switched

Nginx has some significant downsides to what we currently use, unless we opt for the paid version which best I can tell is ~$1K/instance/month. These aren't hypothetical differences these are features we actually use: - no sync for load balancing data (sticky peer data, rate limit data, etc): HAProxy supports this out of the box; - no active health checks: HAProxy supports this out of the box; - no API for purging cache: Varnish supports this out of the box. - no ESI support: … Nginx has some significant downsides to what we currently use, unless we opt for the paid version which best I can tell is ~$1K/instance/month. These aren't hypothetical differences these are features we actually use: - no sync for load balancing data (sticky peer data, rate limit data, etc): HAProxy supports this out of the box; - no active health checks: HAProxy supports this out of the box; - no API for purging cache: Varnish supports this out of the box. - no ESI support: Varnish supports this out of the box. Best I can tell even the paid version of nginx doesn't support this.