CDN77 vs HAProxy comparison

CDN77.com and HAProxy are both solutions in the Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection category. CDN77.com is ranked #29, while HAProxy is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.2. CDN77.com holds a 1.1% mindshare in DDOS, compared to HAProxy’s 1.5% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of CDN77.com users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of HAProxy users who would recommend it.

CDN77

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100% willing to recommend

HAProxy

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92% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between CDN77 and HAProxy based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

CDN77

Ranking in Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection

29th

Average Rating

10.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

CDN (17th)

HAProxy

Ranking in Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection

6th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) (3rd), Web Application Firewall (WAF) (14th), Bot Management (7th), Service Mesh (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection category, the mindshare of CDN77 is 1.1%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of HAProxy is 1.5%, down from 1.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
HAProxy	1.5%
CDN77	1.1%
Other	97.4%

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection

Featured Reviews

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Broadspectrum

Provides quick access to resources

We are a radio station who serves up music It has improved our organization by providing quick access to resources. CDN Speed Data center availability around the world This product satisfies our company needs. No additional features are required as far as we are concerned. More than five…

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Shrinivas Devarkonda

Head of DevOps at TripFactory

Handles high traffic efficiently and simplifies complex routing with rule-based logic

I think HAProxy is good as it stands now, but I believe there could be improvements. gRPC has recently been implemented, which is great, along with TLS 1.2 and 1.3 support, and HTTP 2.0 is also available. However, I'm unsure about the benchmark of those HTTP 2.0 requests on HAProxy. If there were any other protocol with better performance than HTTP 2.0, or perhaps mTLS and other similar features, including that in HAProxy would be really great. For improvements, I think that during setup and configuration, the steps provided are neat and clear. Anyone can easily install and configure it. There are many kernel tuning parameters also available, which is great. For specific improvement, in terms of logging, I think printing the full object of the request may help, or if there's a way to reference two requests, it would be beneficial to find a complete session history from a logged-in customer, as it would help analyze customer and user analytics.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"It has improved our organization by providing quick access to resources."

"It is extremely easy to set up and integrate with WordPress and purge files as needed through the control panel."

"The control panel is nicely laid out and I do not have to hunt for functionality."

"I selected CDN77 because it has servers where our different target markets are (some are in Asia)."

"It has helped improve load speed on the site."

"Purge pages: It is a fast solution for updating my content from all datacenters."

"The ability to handle a sequence of front- and back-ends gives the user the opportunity to send traffic through different services."

"It is scalable."

"I can simplify configurations of many internal services (e.g. Web server configs) by moving some elements (like SSL) to HAProxy. I can also disable additional applications, like Varnish, by moving traffic shaping configurations to HAProxy."

"What I like best about the product is its simplicity and speed. When you need to set up a load balancer quickly, HAProxy offers options like sticky sessions and round-robin. It's also fast to configure, including adding SSL for security. While it may have fewer options than other solutions like F5, HAProxy gets the job done for basic load-balancing tasks."

"HAProxy potentially has a good return on investment"

"Load balancing is valuable, and we are also using the WAF feature."

"The ease of use of the configuration, and great documentation, are the most valuable features for us."

"HAProxy positively impacted our organization by exceeding scalability expectations, initially projected at 200k requests but ultimately handling over 15 million transactions per second without any issues."

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Cons

"If you are a low-use user and not used the minimum credit, it will be lost at end of year unless you upgrade, then you are left with more bandwidth than you can ever use."

"A year ago, I had to deal with SEO factors involving duplication of content."

"There is room for improvement in the pricing model. It could be cheaper."

"If nbproc = 2, you will have two processes of HAProxy running. However, the stats of HAProxy will not be aggregated, meaning you don't really know the collective status in a single point of view."

"An alerting system would be better as I need to check log files if any backend is down."

"The configuration syntax is powerful yet can become overwhelming for newcomers; a more beginner-friendly interface or a native GUI without relying on third-party tools would ease the onboarding process."

"The GUI should be more responsive and show the detailed output of logs."

"I would like to evaluate load-balancing algorithms other than round robin and SSL offloading. Also, it would be helpful if I could logically divide the HAProxy load-balancing into multiple entities so that I would install one HA Proxy LB application which could be used for different Web servers for different applications. I am not sure if these features are available."

"Documentation could be improved."

"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"For low-use users, it can be more expensive than it seems. It would be a disadvantage for a lot of hobby users."

"I would suggest low usage cases that there are other options available, such as WordPress's own CDN."

"Regarding the pricing, it is expensive. It may not suit others. I suggest a lower recharge level and also to remove the credit expiry time."

"It is free of cost."

"HAProxy is a free open-source solution."

"HAProxy is free open-source software."

"The tool is open-source."

"I think that the pricing is very fair, I would definitely recommend buying the Enterprise license."

"HAProxy is an open-source solution."

"HAProxy is free software. There are optional paid products (support/appliances)."

"We use NGINX as well. However, because the health checks are a paid feature, I like to avoid it whenever possible."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

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Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

No data available

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	17
Midsize Enterprise	15
Large Enterprise	16

Questions from the Community

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Do you recommend HAProxy?

I do recommend HAProxy for more simple applications or for companies with a low budget, since HAProxy is a free, open-source product. HAProxy is also a good choice for someone looking for a stable ...

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What do you like most about HAProxy?

The solution is effective in managing our traffic.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for HAProxy?

Since we used the open-source version, we were not concerned about pricing, setup cost, or licensing.

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Also Known As

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HAProxy Community Edition, HAProxy Enterprise Edition, HAPEE

Overview

CDN77 is an innovation leading content delivery network provider with global coverage of 32+ PoPs on 5 continents.

CDN77 is a great solution for many use cases - website acceleration and security, live streaming, VOD, gaming, software distribution and private CDN.

Get a 14-day free trial with unlimited features and 24/7 live support. No credit card needed. Make your content delivery faster and more secure within 5 minutes.

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HAProxy is considered by many in the industry to be one of the fastest and most popular and trusted software load balancer products in the marketplace today. Organizations are able to immediately deploy HAProxy solutions to enable websites and applications to optimize performance, security, and observability. HAProxy solutions are available to scale to any environment.

HAProxy is an open-source product and has a robust, active, reliable community. The solutions are continually tested and improved on by the community. HAProxy offers a dynamic design to support the most modern architectures, microservices, and deployment environments (appliances, containers, virtual, and cloud).

HAProxy utilizes a cloud-native protocol, which makes it a complete solution for cloud services such as Red Hat OpenShift, OVH, Rackspace, Digital Ocean, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and more. It also can be used as the reference load balancer in OpenStack.

HAProxy Products

HAProxy One: This is a next-gen end-to-end application delivery platform created to secure and streamline modern application architectures. It offers a complete suite of solutions, such as application delivery software, turnkey, and appliance services observed and administered through a central control plane. The product supplies application acceleration, CDN, DDoS, bot management, WAF capabilities, and load balancing.

HAProxy Fusion Control Plane: This product enables organizations to streamline workflows, arrange traffic routing and security protocols, enhance the speed of delivery, and scale out of the organization’s applications. HAProxy Fusion Control Plane offers an intuitive user interface to observe and control the complete product lineup and API for administering numerous fleets of HAProxy Enterprise servers, either in the cloud or on premises.

HAProxy Edge: This product offering is an application delivery network (ADN) that provides a broad array of turnkey application services with amazing scale and complete visibility. Services include application and content acceleration, advanced security, and load balancing.

HAProxy ALOHA Hardware or Virtual Load Balancer: This product is a virtual load balancer or plug-and-play hardware constructed upon HAProxy Enterprise that is designed to support proxying at Layer 4 and Layer 7. It has a user-friendly GUI, simple deployment, and no limit on backend servers, making it a complete product for organizations desiring a reliable system to provide high-end load distribution for critical services.

HAProxy Enterprise Kubernetes Ingress Controller: This product is designed to facilitate smooth traffic flow into a Kubernetes cluster. It is able to automatically discover anomalies and changes in an organization's Kubernetes infrastructure and provide precise distribution of traffic to healthy pods, with no downtime caused by poor pod health or scaling changes. The product comes with an embedded WAF to optimize the security of an organization’s applications running in Kubernetes.

HAProxy Enterprise: This product is the enterprise-class edition of HAProxy offering a dynamic and sturdy code base with next-generation features, an enterprise suite of add-ons, professional services, and trusted support.
- Cluster-wide tracking and rate limiting
- Advanced DDoS and bot management
- Web application firewall
- Reliable expert support
- High performance modules
- Device detection and geolocation
- Real-time dashboard

Reviews from Real Users

“Having the right load balancing solution – which is what HAProxy is – and protection in place gives organizations peace of mind.” - Nathanel S., Platform Architect at SES

“I use HAProxy for individuals who can not buy low balancers. I built NFV in a box and send individuals a pathway into an HAProxy VM. The setup was not difficult; it usually takes a day to complete for a VPC. When it comes to pricing, HAProxy is free.” - Nasir O., Network & Cloud Architect at Koala Compute Inc.

HAProxy

Sample Customers

Hubble Space Telescope & European Southern Observatory, Oracle, Scania, CentOS, bet-at-home.com, Playrix, Epom Ad Server

Booking.com, GitHub, Reddit, StackOverflow, Tumblr, Vimeo, Yelp

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