I used to work with this idiot. Full of platitudes and shite. He’d come into the office in the morning and ask “good morning, how are you?”. Even if you said “my cat got run over”, he’d say “that’s great” and carry on his day.

Having used HAProxy for 15 years commercially, I absolutely agree with this. There are lots of complex features of HAProxy that only a dedicated proxy can provide. The acls, deep packet inspection and stick tables are a few.

Whilst it doesn’t directly “serve” PHP or Python - it’s a load balancer so can just have regular Apache or nginx backends serving content which is arguably its main use case. For homelab this doesn’t always make sense but I would pick nginx for high traffic commercial environments.

I was always (apparently wrongly) under the impression that if someone touched a car, that it could not continue to race. I assume this must just be for marshals, but could be extended to pit crew.

Check the /etc/exports on the host. Is the .116 device listed there?