We performed a comparison between HAProxy, Loadbalancer.org, 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 feature that I have found the most valuable is that it works for my use case of application load balancing. I'm using it for PeerSense, and it's easy enough for PeerSense."
"It improves our scalability and responsiveness services to meet our demanding customer requirements."
"HAProxy potentially has a good return on investment"
"The solution is user-friendly and efficient."
"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."
"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."
"It is scalable."
"Load balancing is valuable, and we are also using the WAF feature."
"For now, it's stable."
"Loadbalancer is easy to use. It performs well, with low latency."
"We now get notifications when pool members go down, and we eliminate our downtime by not sending traffic to downed pool members."
"Loadbalancer.org is less complex than Citrix."
"Load balancing helps us distribute both incoming and outgoing data loads evenly among the servers, preventing overload on a single server."
"Most important for us that it makes sure that the load is distributed and that we always have access to the end servers."
"I found scalability in Loadbalancer.org valuable."
"We can more easily set up a test environment, because you can easily configure your forms. It makes it more flexible for us, to convert our test environment to a production environment, without having to change DNSs on the outside. You just configure the forms on the inside. So without changing the actual endpoint for the end user, we can create completely different networks in the background."
"The best solution, by far, for web traffic control for things in production and just around the house."
"Supports IMAP, POP and SMTP protocols for the reverse proxy."
"The robust software architecture allows for it to be scalable and very stable."
"Its versatility and capabilities make it invaluable for implementing patches and fixes when necessary."
"With NGINX, I appreciate its ability to route traffic geographically."
"I need to highlight that the number one thing about NGINX is that it is free."
"The product is resilient."
"When I worked in a security research center, we tested NGINX to support DoS and DDoS attacks, and its results were great."
"Dynamic update API. More things should be possible to be configured during runtime."
"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."
"Pricing, monitoring, and reports can be improved."
"The web stats UI, which provides the status of the health and numbers, could greatly benefit from having a RESTful interface to control the load-balanced nodes. Although there is a hack around the UI (by issuing a POST request to HAProxy with parameters), a RESTful interface would greatly improve the automation process (through Chef and Ansible)."
"HAProxy could do with some good combination integrations."
"The reconfigurability in terms of the tooling could be improved and maybe an editor plugin can be added."
"We need to handle new connections by dropping, or queuing them while the HAProxy restarts, and because HAProxy does not handle split config files."
"Documentation could be improved."
"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."
"Possibly a more graphical overview page (with colors) to give a two second overview to see if everything is working fine."
"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."
"Originally we had some stability issues with it, so they replaced it with a new box and it's fine."
"Compared to the physical products, the solution's throughput is a little less."
"They're mostly designed to balance a particular type of traffic. I wanted to load balance DNS, and they just don't do it the way that we wanted to. So they're not used as DNS load balancers."
"We could enhance the security aspects of the load balancer."
"It doesn't have the bonding capability feature."
"I would like the configuration process to be more simplified."
"The user interface could be improved."
"I would like it to have a more user-friendly graphical interface."
"Improvement needed in NGINX Plus could focus on optimizing memory usage for users."
"The solution's GUI is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"If NGINX brings some features for health check in the open source version, it would be better. "
"I would like to see the Grafana integration in NGINX which is already present in HAProxy. Grafana integration will help the solution visualize all the data analytics on the dashboard which is currently not present."
"The scaling should be built into the software rather than configured from an outside source."