Yes, you can. Traditional ADCs and Load Balancers are deployed at the front of an application, to load-balance, persist, cache, route and modify transactions. NGINX Plus provides the same functionality and benefits. ADCs and load balancers operate as reverse proxies, forwarding HTTP requests on to origin servers and application servers. NGINX Plus can operate as an origin server (serving static content directly from disk) and as an application gateway (translating HTTP requests to interface protocols such as FastCGI, uWSGI, memcache) – it provides all the functionality you would expect from a modern web server. NGINX Plus is a proven solution (based on the highly-regarded NGINX Open Source core), creating a full HTTP-driven application platform. You may also check the following articles on nginx.com: