We performed a comparison between HAProxy and Imperva DDoS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."Software defined load balancing allows us to dynamically adjust and codify routing decisions. This speeds up development."
"HAProxy's TCP load balancer is excellent and super stable."
"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."
"Load balancing is valuable, and we are also using the WAF feature."
"I can't speak to all of the HAProxy features because we don't use them all, but load balancing is very good."
"Scalable and inexpensive."
"It has allowed us to evenly distribute the load across a number of servers, and check their health and automatically react to errors."
"Performance configuration options with threads, processes, and core stickiness are very valuable."
"We have peace of mind that nobody will use malware on us or try to hack our website."
"Provides Anti-DDoS protection, as well as other protections like SQL injection, Cross-Site Scripting, and antiscanner. These types of protection are valuable to the business due to the daily attacks on our portals, and that often cannot be seen without a tool like this."
"It's very pretty easy to onboard the URL."
"Technical support was very helpful."
"On the site security, I can see which countries have incidents, whether it was a robot attack, a real human user, or non-human user."
"The most valuable features for us are the DDoS and Bot."
"The technical support is excellent."
"It is an effective threat mitigation tool."
"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."
"The visibility could be improved."
"We need to handle new connections by dropping, or queuing them while the HAProxy restarts, and because HAProxy does not handle split config files."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The reconfigurability in terms of the tooling could be improved and maybe an editor plugin can be added."
"It's quite expensive."
"Some maintenance must be performed by our IT team."
"Imperva should have more points of presence in Africa."
"I miss being able to integrate the dashboard with other BI tools we are using. We have to export and import data to be able to present it, and doing so is a lot of work."
"Imperva DDoS does not provide version control."
"I would like to have support for SSL management and secure DNS."
"I would like to see automated reporting to improve visibility."
"The cost could be lower; our end clients need to have a high budget to purchase this solution."
HAProxy is ranked 3rd in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 40 reviews while Imperva DDoS is ranked 6th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 74 reviews. HAProxy is rated 8.2, while Imperva DDoS is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of HAProxy writes "Offers good integration capabilities but needs to improve the monitoring part". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Imperva DDoS writes "I like the content monitoring feature which I haven't seen in other WAF solutions". HAProxy is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus, Kemp LoadMaster and Citrix NetScaler, whereas Imperva DDoS is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, Arbor DDoS, Radware DefensePro and Prolexic.
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