We performed a comparison between A10 Networks Lightning ADC, Citrix NetScaler, and HAProxy based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."Our clients appreciate that this is a security enabled solution."
"It allows you to secure the application while balancing the connections for many other customers, reducing CPU usage and server load."
"What I like about Lightning ADC, is that instead of having a big appliance sitting in front of the Kubernetes cluster, Lightning can pretty much go inside of Kubernetes."
"I find all of it to be valuable, because of the flexibility that is built into this product."
"Manageability and visibility are good."
"The most valuable features are the VDA Delivery, Gateway Fort, and the load balancing."
"Very stable."
"The load balancing is one of the most valuable features."
"We appreciate that this solution facilitates our access to Citrix internet."
"It is simple for both IT specialists and customers."
"It is a complete solution for those looking for an all-in-one."
"The most important features would be the load-balancing of HTTP and TCP requests, according to multiple LB-algorithms (busyness, weighted-busyness, round robin, traffic, etc). Another important feature that we cannot live without is the username/passwd authentication for legacy systems that had none."
"The support for all major Linux distros makes running and testing a breeze."
"The feature that I have found the most valuable is that it works for my use case of application load balancing. I'm using it for PeerSense, and it's easy enough for PeerSense."
"Stability is number one."
"It is scalable."
"It reduced the load on our main load balancers."
"I estimate that this product has saved our company hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars in possible downtime from previous load balancers. We make a lot of our money from online sales, so it is critical to have 99.9% uptime."
"Tech support is super-quick to respond, and always on target with answers specific to the current issue."
"A10 documentation is not as open and accessible as AWS and Azure documentation is."
"We would like to see some improvement in the rapidity with which we can customize security facts within the solution."
"The support from A10 should be improved."
"The solution should be able to scale more effectively than it does."
"Finding relevant documentation for learning NetScaler can be challenging, especially for beginners who prefer a web interface over command-line interfaces."
"The GUI should be improved."
"Too many bugs in the software and it's always difficult when you need to update."
"I feel that Citrix NetScaler's customer support needs to improve."
"The solution can improve their support and send tickets directly to a Citrix ADC engineer in order to avoid having to escalate each support call."
"I think the documentation should be improved."
"The solution could be more secure."
"There is room for improvement in HAProxy's dynamic configuration."
"The product does not have any new technologies."
"There is no standardized document available. So, any individual has to work from scratch to work it out. If some standard deployment details are available, it would be helpful for people while deploying it. There should be more documentation on the standard deployment."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model. It could be cheaper."
"Pricing, monitoring, and reports can be improved."
"The reconfigurability in terms of the tooling could be improved and maybe an editor plugin can be added."
"While troubleshooting, we are having some difficulties. There are no issues when it is running; it is stable and very good; however, if there is a troubleshooting issue or an incident occurs, we will have issues because this is open-source."
"The solution can be improved by controlling TCP behavior better and mandating to clients what the expected outcome must be in order to avoid receiving contestant timeout logs."
