HAProxy Reviews

• Load Balancing. We run large scale, backend infrastructure, serving millions of queries per second with low latency requirements.

We expect to see the following improvements:

• Software LB that can run on commodity hardware, on enterprise grade Linux OS distributions.
• Simplifies our operations, improves our scalability, and lowers our costs.
• Open Source, with an established community of users that we can leverage to operate and grow our deployments.

• Availability of REST API for Configuration and Reporting
• An even bigger suite of Load Balancing algorithms
• Documentation

In the process of deployment.

We are still in the process of rolling out our deployments and migrating our traffic.

We are still in the process of rolling out our deployments and migrating our traffic.

Excellent. Both their Professional Services and Support Engineers that we have been working with are dedicated, have a high degree of expertise in the software, and with the entire stack in general.

Yes, Citrix Netscaler. We switched for the reasons above.

Complex, but their technical staff has made excellent progress on our migration to date.

Other popular Load Balancer solutions out there

Others should try it out for sure. It’s a great solution backed by a very smart set of technical folks.

The solution is used for high availability. We use it for the backend to distribute the load.

We needed a simple proxy system that is open source. HAProxy was the most used tool for any issues that we ran into. We did not want to use something that was not used much so that we could fix the issues that came up.

The solution is effective in managing our traffic. The integrations work fine. It's a load balancer. There's no need for complex integration. We hit it, and it balances the load in the servers that we assigned to it.

The product has the basic foundations of any load-balancing product. It is simple and basic. The product does not have any new technologies.

I have been using the solution for a few years.

The tool seems very stable. I have not heard of the infrastructure team having any issues with it.

The tool is scalable. We have everything we need.

The product is open source.

There are better tools, but the product does the job well. All my colleagues know the tool and have used it. I recommend the product to others. Companies that have complex environments must not choose HAProxy. Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.

The primary use case of HAProxy is for load balancing. 

This product is scalable and inexpensive. 

The visibility could be improved. Stability can falter when there is a lot of traffic. End-to-end connections are limited. 

Stability could be improved. 

The solution is scalable. 

The technical support is good, it's provided to us by the distributor. 

Licensing costs are inexpensive. 

I rate this solution six out of 10. 

Our company used the solution as a proxy for Tanzu during an initial installation for conducting performance tests. 

It is easy to learn proxy operations. 

The solution has bad performance issues. 

I used the solution for six months. 

The stability is good and passed all tests. 

I did not need technical support. 

The solution is easy to install and configure in terms of the load balancer. Other tools might take eight days to install, but the solution only takes three or four days.

We installed the solution in-house using available documentation. 

Maintenance can be completed by one network administrator. Sometimes it is not easy to diagnose issues. 

The solution is open source so is free. 

We did not evaluate other options before the solution. We were not happy with the solution's performance so we switched to Load Balancing Analytics.