We performed a comparison between Akamai Ion 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)."Akamai is easy to use and very effective."
"Reliability. HAProxy is the most reliable product I have ever used."
"Having the right load balancing solution – which is what HAProxy is – and protection in place gives organizations peace of mind."
"It reduced the load on our main load balancers."
"The technical support has been, in one word, perfect. Every time I call, I’m on the phone with a representative within five minutes who is highly skilled and willing to help, whether in the case of critical issues or simple advice."
"I have found HAProxy very helpful in replicating production environment architecture in a development and testing environment."
"Advanced traffic rules, including stick tables and ACLs, which allow me to shape traffic while it's load balanced."
"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."
"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."
"The product must provide more flexibility."
"HAProxy is very weak in the logging and monitoring part and requires improvement."
"We've changed solutions as it doesn't fit with our current needs."
"Sometimes it's challenging to get through the log, and you need a log to understand what is going on. It isn't easy to map the logging with the documentation, and every time I read the log, I have to pull out the documentation to understand what I'm reading."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in HAProxy's dynamic configuration."
"The only area that I can see needing improvement is the management interface, since it is pretty much all through the CLI or configuration. A GUI/web interface could be helpful for users who are not as experienced in the Linux shell. However, HAProxy does have another product that we evaluated called ALOHA, which has a web front-end, but we found it did not meet our needs."
"I would like to see better search handling, and a user interface, with a complete functional graphical unit"
"HAProxy could do with some good combination integrations."
Akamai Ion is ranked 15th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 1 review while HAProxy is ranked 3rd in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 41 reviews. Akamai Ion is rated 7.0, while HAProxy is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Akamai Ion writes "Helps optimize the content delivery network, but doesn’t provide much flexibility". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HAProxy writes "Useful for for small and quick load-balancing tasks". Akamai Ion is most compared with NGINX Plus, whereas HAProxy is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus, Kemp LoadMaster, Citrix NetScaler and Envoy.
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