We performed a comparison between Citrix NetScaler, HAProxy, and NGINX Plus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."The most valuable feature is load balancing."
"Easy, user-friendly setup with content switching and integrated caching features."
"I found that the GUI was very easy to to navigate. If you were looking for something, it was fairly easy to find. There's a lot of third-party documentation and information available online as well."
"Unified Gateway allows me to provide secure external access to applications for suppliers and customers while requiring Multi-Factor Authentication."
"My clients use it for load balancing."
"This solution allows the user to easily scale out application delivery, and provides secure remote access."
"The load balancing and VPN features are most valuable. AAA authentication is also valuable."
"The solution is very stable. We don't have any downtime or issues of that nature."
"Having the right load balancing solution – which is what HAProxy is – and protection in place gives organizations peace of mind."
"It solves a problem for me where I can build files, not based on the health of the check, but rather the speed of the check."
"It improves our scalability and responsiveness services to meet our demanding customer requirements."
"It is scalable."
"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."
"The ease of use of the configuration, and great documentation, are the most valuable features for us."
"The most valuable feature of HAProxy is that its open source."
"Valuable features include authentication, caching, reverse proxy routing, and load balancing."
"With NGINX, I appreciate its ability to route traffic geographically."
"NGINX works much better than HAProxy in our current hardware and architecture for HTTP/HTTPS load balancing. "
"When you use NGINX, you have more options and power."
"Zero Downtime has always been a strength in recommending infrastructure web services. NGINX allows me to execute such infrastructure with less complications and the ability to switch from server to server easily."
"The robust software architecture allows for it to be scalable and very stable."
"The flexibility of its modules allow it to be scalable."
"It performs very well. That's one of the primary reasons we use NGINX."
"Getting to use some of the advanced tools, even with the assistance of Citrix support, can be challenging."
"The vendor provides frequent patches, however, the security of the website has room for improvement."
"Manageability and adaptability can also be challenging for end customers."
"Development team's response time could be better."
"I think there is always room for improvement in this type of solutions. For example, I think the GUI should be easy to understand."
"I would like to see more integration for single sign-on."
"Technical support could be improved."
"The solution can improve their support and send tickets directly to a Citrix ADC engineer in order to avoid having to escalate each support call."
"There are three main areas to improve: 1) Make remote management more modern by adding API. 2) Propose a general HA solution for HAProxy (no I'm using keepalived for this). 3) Thread option should be a bit more stable."
"The visibility could be improved."
"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."
"Dynamic update API. More things should be possible to be configured during runtime."
"Documentation could be improved."
"They should introduce one feature that I know many people, including me, are waiting for: HAProxy should have provide hot-swipe for back-end servers. Also, they need a more detailed GUI for monitoring and configuration."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model. It could be cheaper."
"Pricing, monitoring, and reports can be improved."
"The scaling should be built into the software rather than configured from an outside source."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model."
"Our most challenging part was to run an older PHP website reverse-proxied through NGINX. That was not fun."
"The solution must improve its performance."
"I would suggest adding GUI-based configuration panels to NGINX Plus to simplify setup and management tasks."
"NGINX Plus is moderately priced, but it could give better value for money."
"It would be good if NGINX provided a graphical user interface."
"The biggest room for improvement would be to allow NGINX Core machines to cluster for memory zones in some way with a plug and play module. "
