We performed a comparison between Citrix NetScaler and HAProxy based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The web application firewall is one feature I found valuable in the solution."
"It is a stable solution. It crashed only once, four years ago...There is a return on investment using the solution."
"Helped us a lot with load balancing."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is its load balancing."
"Enables a Web service that offers persistent client-server connections, IP restriction, URL rewrite (such as remove "/assets/" path from client-side URL path), and cache for CSS or JS files... You can easily use the GUI to set up all these requirements on the same network device within 20-30 minutes. (If you do the same steps on CLI, it might take less time.)"
"I can turn on features without actually owning a license. I can test them out, I can use them for a while, and then I can be licensed up. That's awesome. I don't have to have a license immediately before I can start to deploy things rapidly, rapid deployment is a plus."
"Compared to other solutions, Citrix ADC is much more robust in terms of the native integration to cloud platforms. It is far more robust from an operational point of view as well."
"I like the ease of use. It's easy to manage. I also like it's ease of use with virtualization technologies with applications."
"I have found HAProxy very helpful in replicating production environment architecture in a development and testing environment."
"The most valuable thing for me is TCP/IP Layer 4 stuff you can do with HAProxy. You can go down to the protocol level and make decisions on something."
"We did not need technical support because the documentation is good."
"We use it as a load balancer for our application servers."
"The ease of use of the configuration, and great documentation, are the most valuable features for us."
"We were able to use HAProxy for round robin with our databases, or for a centralized TCP connection in one host."
"Stability is number one."
"It reduced the load on our main load balancers."
"I feel that Citrix NetScaler's customer support needs to improve."
"I think the documentation should be improved."
"Development team's response time could be better."
"Overall the price of Citrix ADC could be more competitive."
"Manageability and adaptability can also be challenging for end customers."
"We face challenges with the solution's firmware upgrades frequently."
"I would like to see multifactor authentication added to this solution to improve the security."
"The only thing customers told me that could be improved is that they would like to be able to purchase and receive the products in one box, rather than two boxes. This is something related to marketing, though."
"HAProxy could improve by making the dashboards easier to use, and better reports and administration tickets."
"HAProxy is very weak in the logging and monitoring part and requires improvement."
"The visibility could be improved."
"We would like to see dynamic ACL and port update support. Our infrastructure relies on randomly allocated ports and this feature would allow us to update without restarting the process."
"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."
"I would like to see better search handling, and a user interface, with a complete functional graphical unit"
"Maybe HAProxy could be more modular."
"HAProxy could do with some good combination integrations."
Citrix NetScaler is ranked 2nd in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 85 reviews while HAProxy is ranked 3rd in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 41 reviews. Citrix NetScaler is rated 8.4, while HAProxy is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Citrix NetScaler writes "Optimizing application delivery and ensuring robust network performance with its excellent stability and comprehensive load-balancing capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HAProxy writes "Offers good integration capabilities but needs to improve the monitoring part". Citrix NetScaler is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Fortinet FortiADC, Loadbalancer.org and A10 Networks Thunder ADC, whereas HAProxy is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus, Kemp LoadMaster, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Envoy. See our Citrix NetScaler vs. HAProxy report.
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