We performed a comparison between Citrix Intelligent Traffic Management 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)."We use the HDX protocol, a high-performing component of the Citrix solutions. We also use provisioning to generate VM and NetScaler ADC solutions to propose access to applications for our customers."
"Tech support is super-quick to respond, and always on target with answers specific to the current issue."
"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."
"It reduced the load on our main load balancers."
"Reliability. HAProxy is the most reliable product I have ever used."
"The features I find valuable in this solution are session control which automatically disconnects users that forget to log off, and the ability to write rules to either allow or block certain file requests."
"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."
"It is stable. Period. Will not fail unless you do something wrong."
"The anti-DDOS PacketShield filtering solution (embedded in the physical appliances) as well as the BGP route injection are great features and heavily used."
"We discussed problems with the network products with the Indian teams. The support center for network products is located in India. There are language barriers and issues with the time difference, so we sometimes face restrictions when dealing with this team."
"We've changed solutions as it doesn't fit with our current needs."
"I would like to see better search handling, and a user interface, with a complete functional graphical unit"
"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."
"HAProxy could improve by making the dashboards easier to use, and better reports and administration tickets."
"There is room for improvement in HAProxy's dynamic configuration."
"The basic clustering is not usable in our very specific setup. The clustering is mainly a configuration replication and is great in a case of active-passive usage. In the case of an active-active (or with more than two nodes) where the configuration is not fully identical, it cannot be used as-is."
"The reconfigurability in terms of the tooling could be improved and maybe an editor plugin can be added."
"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."
Earn 20 points
Citrix Intelligent Traffic Management is ranked 19th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) while HAProxy is ranked 3rd in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 41 reviews. Citrix Intelligent Traffic Management is rated 8.0, while HAProxy is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Citrix Intelligent Traffic Management writes "It's a robust and proven solution that we've been working with for many years". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HAProxy writes "Useful for for small and quick load-balancing tasks". Citrix Intelligent Traffic Management is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, whereas HAProxy is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus, Kemp LoadMaster, Citrix NetScaler and Envoy.
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