Kemp LoadMaster and HAProxy compete in the load balancing domain. Kemp LoadMaster appears to have the edge with its ease of use, stability, and integration capabilities favored by users.
Features: Kemp LoadMaster provides seamless deployment with user-friendly templates, edge security, and multifactor authentication. It offers high availability and smooth updates, making it reliable. HAProxy is open-source and customizable, excelling in protocol-level load balancing and handling heavy traffic, though it requires technical expertise.
Room for Improvement: Kemp LoadMaster could benefit from better template customization and enhanced security features, along with a more streamlined user interface. HAProxy needs improvement in its documentation, GUI, and dynamic configuration capabilities to enhance usability and efficiency.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Kemp LoadMaster is known for simple on-premises and private cloud deployment, with technical support praised for responsiveness and expertise. HAProxy offers ease of deployment supported by community resources but requires a technical background for effective use and lacks centralized support compared to Kemp.
Pricing and ROI: Kemp LoadMaster has a structured pricing model with flexible licensing options, providing a financially viable choice with solid support and ROI. HAProxy’s open-source licenses make it a low-cost alternative, appealing to those investing in internal expertise for optimal performance.
HAProxy is considered by many in the industry to be one of the fastest and most popular and trusted software load balancer products in the marketplace today. Organizations are able to immediately deploy HAProxy solutions to enable websites and applications to optimize performance, security, and observability. HAProxy solutions are available to scale to any environment.
HAProxy is an open-source product and has a robust, active, reliable community. The solutions are continually tested and improved on by the community. HAProxy offers a dynamic design to support the most modern architectures, microservices, and deployment environments (appliances, containers, virtual, and cloud).
HAProxy utilizes a cloud-native protocol, which makes it a complete solution for cloud services such as Red Hat OpenShift, OVH, Rackspace, Digital Ocean, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and more. It also can be used as the reference load balancer in OpenStack.
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Reviews from Real Users
“Having the right load balancing solution – which is what HAProxy is – and protection in place gives organizations peace of mind.” - Nathanel S., Platform Architect at SES
“I use HAProxy for individuals who can not buy low balancers. I built NFV in a box and send individuals a pathway into an HAProxy VM. The setup was not difficult; it usually takes a day to complete for a VPC. When it comes to pricing, HAProxy is free.” - Nasir O., Network & Cloud Architect at Koala Compute Inc.
Kemp LoadMaster is a powerful load balancing solution that also serves as a web application firewall. Its primary use case is load balancing and application load balancing, making it an ideal solution for organizations that must distribute traffic across multiple servers. Kemp's integration with an active directory for ESP usage, hosting/deployment of SSL certificates, and pricing are some of its most valuable features.
Using Kemp has helped organizations mitigate cross-scripting vulnerabilities, cookie-related issues, and content security policy issues. It has also allowed them to handle everything with Kemp instead of working on each application individually.
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