We performed a comparison between Akamai Ion and HAProxy based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."Akamai is easy to use and very effective."
"It has allowed us to evenly distribute the load across a number of servers, and check their health and automatically react to errors."
"Performance configuration options with threads, processes, and core stickiness are very valuable."
"The ease of use of the configuration, and great documentation, are the most valuable features for us."
"It is scalable."
"I am also able to make configuration changes during the day, in production, with no worries of problems and/or downtime occurring."
"We did not need technical support because the documentation is good."
"It solves a problem for me where I can build files, not based on the health of the check, but rather the speed of the check."
"It reduced the load on our main load balancers."
"The product must provide more flexibility."
"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."
"The only area that I can see needing improvement is the management interface, since it is pretty much all through the CLI or configuration. A GUI/web interface could be helpful for users who are not as experienced in the Linux shell. However, HAProxy does have another product that we evaluated called ALOHA, which has a web front-end, but we found it did not meet our needs."
"There is no standardized document available. So, any individual has to work from scratch to work it out. If some standard deployment details are available, it would be helpful for people while deploying it. There should be more documentation on the standard deployment."
"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)."
"We need to handle new connections by dropping, or queuing them while the HAProxy restarts, and because HAProxy does not handle split config files."
"There is room for improvement in HAProxy's dynamic configuration."
"HAProxy is very weak in the logging and monitoring part and requires improvement."
"The product does not have any new technologies."
Akamai Ion is ranked 15th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 1 review while HAProxy is ranked 3rd in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 41 reviews. Akamai Ion is rated 7.0, while HAProxy is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Akamai Ion writes "Helps optimize the content delivery network, but doesn’t provide much flexibility". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HAProxy writes "Useful for for small and quick load-balancing tasks". Akamai Ion is most compared with NGINX Plus, whereas HAProxy is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus, Kemp LoadMaster, Citrix NetScaler and Envoy.
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