The main use cases are for load balancing and limiting traffic. It is utilized as a front-end server for balancing HTTP traffic, as well as for balancing traffic between application servers and database servers like Redis and Elasticsearch. HAProxy is employed for both HTTP and TCP load balancing purposes, ensuring optimal resource utilization and preventing overloading of any single server.
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HAProxy for mission critical services
What do you like best about the product?
Reliable, performant and live configuration changes.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing, works as documented well engineered product
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Service resiliance, ingress management.
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What do you like best about the product?
Integrated mgt, RBAC, customer self service readonly, Kubernetes integration
What do you dislike about the product?
Being an open source haproxy user I can't see any downside to converting to the H proxy commercial software things that will save me time and help our customers.
I did talk to Frank Mancini about commented comments in open source haproxy.config not being included or handled. I'm OK with what it would take to convert it.
I did talk to Frank Mancini about commented comments in open source haproxy.config not being included or handled. I'm OK with what it would take to convert it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Securing all public websites in the enterprise
A versatile tool for load balancing and traffic management in different environments
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
When dealing with scenarios that require splitting or monitoring Redis clusters with external masters and two slaves, HAProxy becomes essential. This is because HAProxy can significantly reduce delays in Redis communication when switching roles between servers. This reduction in delay improves application load time and prevents unnecessary downtime during server switchovers. It is a crucial tool in ensuring smooth service provision without any interruptions.
What needs improvement?
There is room for improvement in HAProxy's dynamic configuration. Currently, dynamic changes are lost when reloading the service, and it would be beneficial if dynamic configuration changes could be applied without losing the configuration or reloading the service, ensuring backups and preserving the static configuration.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using it for six years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I would rate its stability capabilities nine out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It provides impressive scalability. I would rate it ten out of ten.
How are customer service and support?
In a specific situation where a question was posted on a forum, the issue was successfully resolved within a day or the following day. I would rate their customer support services nine out of ten.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We worked with NGINX, but these two solutions are not entirely comparable as they serve different primary purposes. NGINX functions both as a web server and a reverse proxy server, while HAProxy is primarily a load-balancing proxy. They both have load-balancing capabilities, but their main focus and functionalities are distinct.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup can be challenging. I would rate it six out of ten.
What about the implementation team?
For simpler cases, the deployment process can take around one hour. For more complex scenarios, it can extend up to one week.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
We are using HAProxy as an open-source.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
NGINX is easier to configure and is well-suited for load balancing against an application server. However, HAProxy is more versatile and can be fine-tuned for various scenarios, particularly in load-balancing multiple application servers. In terms of deployment, HAProxy is easy to integrate into a green-blue deployment approach. It allows for simpler configuration and sending commands to its sockets.
What other advice do I have?
Based on customer stability and varying use cases, I recommend choosing this solution. I would rate it nine out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Useful tool in a Web stack
What do you like best about the product?
Heavily customizable via Lua and responsive developers
What do you dislike about the product?
Arbitrary features are gated behind a paywall instead of being in the open-source product
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Routing requests from outside the containers' network to the correct container
great balancing
What do you like best about the product?
The fact that scale up fast and enhance security features well.
What do you dislike about the product?
Something it's difficult to configure, it takes too much time
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Api scaling
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What do you like best about the product?
Great customer service and interaction with employees.
What do you dislike about the product?
This is a good product. Take a review. Nothing that I disliked.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
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What do you like best about the product?
Great load balancrr!!!
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What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing
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What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Load balance traffic to several VMs
Amazing load balancer
What do you like best about the product?
The configuration is easy to create even some very complex load balancing rules. We use it to successfully route all of our web traffic to various web server backends, but also use it to filter out bad requests and drop them to protect our back-end from junk connections.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is not a thing that comes to mind as a common frustration point for me with HAProxy.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
HAProxy simplifies our configuration as we centralize everything on our HAProxy servers which allows us to simplify firewall rules, certificate management, and back-end routing.
Excellent Product and a Rock Solid Support
What do you like best about the product?
The product simply speaks of itself. We have been running the solution in our environtment for several years already and we haven't have any issues with our HAProxy setup aside from of course scheduled maintenance. Also we are on the quest to move our workload from on-prem to AWS cloud and the help we are getting from our account manager (Lamija) and to the technical teams (Chad/Bruno) were at the top. I also like how haproxy connects their pool of talents in Slack where they are just message away. With good documentation I can say that I was from "Zero" to almost "Hero" as I am still learning a lot with the product.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing much but I was a bit on the down side first when I started but as I go along reading documentation with answer from the HAProxy technical team - I'm getting better and more confident supporting our current implementation.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
With the introduction of HAProxy load balancing solution we manage to move away from hardware load balancing solution which give us the ability to scale out and open up the path to flexibility in terms of upgrade, total cost of overhead of maintaining physical devices and ease of maintaining the product altogether.
Great load balancer and support
What do you like best about the product?
HAProxy provides a solid load balancer with a great support team. The tool works well as an additional tool in a business's security environment giving you the ability to turn on features such as WAF or filtering.
What do you dislike about the product?
The nuances of rule setting within HAProxy take some getting use to, but their support team is always ready and willing to help with the details.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We needed a solid tool to provide balancing to our redundant and high-availability applications, as well as a way to implement more granular traffic filtering in the event we needed it, HAProxy fit both these needs.
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