Hello,
I should be able to do it in 3 days.
The node.js part seem pretty straight forward, I've done similar job in the past, so it should not be a problem.
l also I have setup ngnix as reverse load-balancing proxy in the past, including setting multiple nodejs (http) and apache (http and https) servers sitting on the same IP. There are limitations on ngnix under Windows (described in detail here [login to view URL]), so it may not be as fast on windows, but Linux should be fine.
Load balancer can require most of the work on this project, as depending on your hosting and expected volume of requests there could be bottlenecks other than CPU: MySQL IO or CPU, number of open TCP connections between proxy and upstream nodejs servers, limitations of hosting.
This seems very interesting project, will be happy to work on it.
Thanks
Alexei