HAProxy Reviews

The cluster feature. I use it for my second informatic room.

Four days ago, I had an inundation in my informatic room, and there was no interruption of service, because HAProxy is an excellent cluster solution.

While the product is quite perfect, it could use more supervision and be more active. Also, more simplicity, more peripherals, and more scalability.

About five years.

Yes, the first time. I have an old VMware vCenter Server 6.0 . The VMware vCenter Server 6.0 cannot go with HAProxy. HAProxy developed a special feature for me to improve the function.

No issues. I have about 500 users on HAProxy, which use a web server and mail server.

No majors issues to contact them, but did contact them regarding questions about the product.

I have used before a server from Microsoft, and a server is very slow as a solution.

The product is very simple to install and to use.

Yeah, but I don't remember it, because the other product was very bad in comparison to HAProxy.

The product is very simple and fast. It's a microchannel.

Try it and if you like it, you buy it.

The heavily tuned full stack (NIC, kernel, and user space) produces excellent performance. Their support is available for advanced troubleshooting.

We have been able to achieve extremely high performance load balancing in a short amount of time. As an example, using L4 mode, we routinely return more than 100 gigabytes per second of MySQL traffic, from a cluster of about 10 replicas.

The GUI is clunky and the on-board metric viewing solution is poor. We ship metrics off the appliance to InfluxDB (using CollectIT, which is bundled with the appliance), to view them directly with Grafana.

We have used this solution for around five years.

During our seven years with these appliances, we have found some problems, typically under very extreme conditions. In each case, the issue was quickly escalated to a team led by the CTO at Aloha.

During one of these cases, they found three separate OpenSSL bugs, and one of them was not previously reported. We also moved to using Intel NICs. Our initial batch of appliances had a different manufacturer, which struggled when pushed to the line rate.

Full layer 7 SSL termination is limited to a single core, which is a problem. We have worked around it terminating SSL on the back-ends, but this is not ideal.

Technical support is truly exceptional. The initial layer is highly technical, and can reproduce problems and provide details. Serious issues are quickly escalated to the senior R&D team.

We have moved all of our basic load balancing onto these devices. We previously used Citrix NetScalers, which were expensive, harder to configure, and more challenging to troubleshoot.

The initial setup was trivial.

Compared to the others in the market, such as Citrix and F5, the cost per performance for Aloha appliances is extremely low. In our experience, the performance and reliability is better.

We strongly prefer to go with Open Source solutions. We evaluated https://www.loadbalancer.org/ as well. We went with Aloha because of the in-house expertise that Aloha has. The primary developer of HAProxy works there.

Go for it. These systems are exceptional.

Reliability and transparency are the most valuable features.

This product is replacing another balancer which was not supported anymore. So, there is no major improvement for us.

In general, the improvement is in terms of the balancer sense which is moving from a single web server/single point of failure to using several back-end servers, that greatly improves the speed and reliable uptime.

I would improve the web-based UI, but it’s a matter of personal preference.

I have used this solution for one year.

There were no stability issues, it’s a stable product.

There were no scalability issues.

The technical support is very good , they are quick and responsive, which is essential for any product to succeed in this market.

Previously, we were using another product but it is no longer supported.

For the most part, the setup is pretty straightforward. However, as I mentioned earlier, thanks to the very good and quick technical support, all the complex requirements that we had were resolved quickly.

The pricing is good compared to the other similar products.

We evaluated at least four to five other products.

It’s a reliable product with good technical support.

• 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.