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If you have only 1 node, then the load balancer isn't of much help. If it's not a load balancer, then what do you have plans to replace load balancer with (reverse proxy?). You can still use a load balancer just to send traffic to a single node and act like a reverse proxy or use nginx or Apache as a reverse proxy for your node. Both options work for a single node and it's up to you.