We performed a comparison between HAProxy, Loadbalancer.org, and Radware Alteon 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 ease of use of the configuration, and great documentation, are the most valuable features for us."
"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."
"Tech support is super-quick to respond, and always on target with answers specific to the current issue."
"Reliability. HAProxy is the most reliable product I have ever used."
"It improves our scalability and responsiveness services to meet our demanding customer requirements."
"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."
"We have about 30,000 connections going through at any one time and it's fine, it doesn't seem to sweat. It doesn't get overloaded."
"It's pretty much a Swiss Army knife for managing all the load balancing techniques."
"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."
"With basic network knowledge, our required system functionality can be configured and maintained."
"The load balancers have an easy installation and a relatively simple, easy user interface to use."
"For now, it's stable."
"The user interface precludes need to be well versed with Linux IPVS command line. This make it easy for junior team members to participate in managing load balancing needs."
"The performance is good."
"The product offers high availability."
"Security is one of the most valuable features that I like. It is easy to use and easy to configure."
"The features that mitigate attacks are very valuable."
"The best features are the security through the web application firewall, the functionality that the solution offers, being a load balancer with the security functionality on top of it, and the ease of administration."
"A user-friendly and reasonably priced solution."
"I found the link load balancer and server load balancer are the most valuable."
"The best part is that we are able to manage it easily. It is easy to manage and easy to integrate with third-party applications."
"The health status information, with its highly detailed reporting, has saved us time on troubleshooting. We have the precise information needed that helps us find different types of situations."
"Dynamic update API. More things should be possible to be configured during runtime."
"HAProxy could do with some good combination integrations."
"Maybe HAProxy could be more modular."
"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."
"We've changed solutions as it doesn't fit with our current needs."
"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."
"We need to handle new connections by dropping, or queuing them while the HAProxy restarts, and because HAProxy does not handle split config files."
"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)."
"The interface from Loadbalancer.org should be improved."
"There are many features you can set in the backend of Loadbalancer. They should simplify the configuration. The administrator should be able to configure it more simply. How it is now, you can only configure it if you have a lot of experience."
"The configuration is somewhat complicated. Someone who does not know the solution may find this challenging."
"I would like it if Loadbalancer had the ability to make rules for specific shared bots."
"It doesn't have the bonding capability feature."
"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."
"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."
"Compared to the physical products, the solution's throughput is a little less."
"Scalability should be based on customer requirements."
"I would like the solution to display and help visualize the reference map more easily. I would also like to better understand where queries come from and know which users are consulting the application, along with which app."
"I would like for the load balancing to work with premier and the cloud, a mix of premium and cloud."
"Load balancing needs improvement. It needs better integration. I heard f5 works as a DNS operator which is not available in this solution. It would be better if that was implemented."
"Performance could be improved."
"We are in the process of updating our version of the solution, so judging what should be improved is difficult. But in some cases, the visualization takes a while, especially for mapping issues."
"A feature that I would like to see included in the next version might be a better analysis when working with crypt issues. Right now, it is very manual; you load it into Alteon and it runs. It would be interesting to see a more dynamic process."
"The service could be improved by better customer support."