All this is BS. He was doing the same scam many other projects (even MicroStrategy) is doing - praying on users FOMO - as long as there are new users, old ones will profit. The main reason Terra project have to be killed was that it was the only project providing non-USD stable coins, which was a direct attack on USD dominance. So they made an example of him to discourage other projects going in this direction (non-USD stable coins).
NginX is very good WEB SERVER - so it shines in serving content - web pages, caching images etc. But in proxy mode, the load-balancing between backends is pretty basic.
HAProxy is born to be very good LOAD BALANCER - you can have different balancing algorithms, not only round-robin.
HAProxy have also TCP mode, so you can balance your MySQL backends, for example.
Also for me, personally, HAProxy stats rock.
At least in university I went, first 2 years was pretty much general engineering, with chemistry and biology etc. included. Even now, most of grantpas and grantmas around, I'm speaking with, if I tell them, that I'm engineer, they trying to ask me to fix their TV/computer/washing machine etc. In most cases, I'm trying...
It's not like this any more. That's why recently there are so many "software engineers" - you write your Ruby code, install and configure NginX, Passenger etc., even support a cluster of machines (LB, DB, Apps), maybe with a little help for Chef.
Maybe use http://friendfeed.com/ Aggregate all you activity - flickr, youtube, blog etc. and ask you friends to comment there. They'll keep all your entries, not only the onces currently in the RSS feed.