We performed a comparison between Citrix NetScaler, HAProxy, and Loadbalancer.org based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."If you need PCI-compliance and have high security requirements, WAF is the most valuable feature. If you need to monitor your load-balancing services with complex types of monitoring, make sure everything is alright, and load balancing is important, Content Switching and Monitoring features are the keys to your needs. If you want to provide a lot of static images or data, the Caching feature works best for you."
"It's very easy to configure."
"The load balancing feature of this solution is very good."
"The solution is very stable. We don't have any downtime or issues of that nature."
"Load balancing, cache redirection, content switching, all connected with traffic management."
"Unified Gateway allows me to provide secure external access to applications for suppliers and customers while requiring Multi-Factor Authentication."
"The solution is easy to work with and manage."
"Global load balancing between data centers."
"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."
"I have found HAProxy very helpful in replicating production environment architecture in a development and testing environment."
"It has allowed us to evenly distribute the load across a number of servers, and check their health and automatically react to errors."
"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 solution is effective in managing our traffic."
"It reduced the load on our main load balancers."
"We don't have a problem with the user interface. it's good."
"Loadbalancer.org is less complex than Citrix."
"For now, it's stable."
"I found scalability in Loadbalancer.org valuable."
"Most important for us that it makes sure that the load is distributed and that we always have access to the end servers."
"We now get notifications when pool members go down, and we eliminate our downtime by not sending traffic to downed pool members."
"The load balancers have an easy installation and a relatively simple, easy user interface to use."
"With basic network knowledge, our required system functionality can be configured and maintained."
"The features I find valuable in this solution are the ease of managing the logs on the WAFs, the ease to identify break-in attempts into the network, the front-end firewall, and a more specific firewall."
"Needs configuration processes like disabling LB VIPs, automatically disabling the IPs used."
"The GUI should be improved."
"I will try to migrate all the tools to the cloud because there is more lab and more VPN scalability available in the cloud. It is not available on-premises."
"Development team's response time could be better."
"It does not have a sandbox cloud service and antivirus. It should have on-prem or cloud sandboxing and antivirus."
"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."
"Quality assurance could improve by ironing out security vulnerabilities before releasing upgrades."
"We had some bugs in the previous firmware. These were not big issues, but more testing on the firmware would be key to happier customers."
"We've changed solutions as it doesn't fit with our current needs."
"It needs proper HTTP/2 support."
"Improving the documentation with multiple examples and scenarios would be beneficial. Most users encounter similar situations, so having a variety of scenarios readily available on the tool's website would be helpful. For instance, if I were part of the HAProxy team, I'd create a webpage with different scenarios and provide files for each scenario. This way, users wouldn't have to start from scratch every time."
"The logging functionality could use improvement, as it is a little cryptic."
"Pricing, monitoring, and reports can be improved."
"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."
"The reconfigurability in terms of the tooling could be improved and maybe an editor plugin can be added."
"Documentation could be improved."
"The configuration is somewhat complicated. Someone who does not know the solution may find this challenging."
"The automatic refresh of the System Overview webpage: It sometimes has an extra webpage reload (after a change) before you see it is executed. This can be confusing."
"Originally we had some stability issues with it, so they replaced it with a new box and it's fine."
"I'd like to see scalability improved; it can be costly."
"Possibly a more graphical overview page (with colors) to give a two second overview to see if everything is working fine."
"Loadbalancer.org's complexity could be reduced."
"I would like a notification when a new version of the software is available. They told me to sign up for their newsletter, but I have not received any notification for a newer software version."
"You can run into an issue when one engineer passes the case over to another engineer after their shift and they don't know what the first engineer worked on up to that point."