We performed a comparison between HAProxy and Imperva DDoS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."Reliability. HAProxy is the most reliable product I have ever used."
"It is stable. Period. Will not fail unless you do something wrong."
"It is a crucial tool in ensuring smooth service provision without any interruptions."
"HAProxy's TCP load balancer is excellent and super stable."
"Having the right load balancing solution – which is what HAProxy is – and protection in place gives organizations peace of mind."
"It has allowed us to evenly distribute the load across a number of servers, and check their health and automatically react to errors."
"Load balancing is valuable, and we are also using the WAF feature."
"The most valuable feature of HAProxy is that its open source."
"The three-second service level agreement is already better than the competition."
"On the activity log, I can see the exact details, the visit, and the threat."
"IncapRules is one of the most valuable features, as you can create your own security and access control rules on top of your security policy. Using IncapRules we were able to easily block Layer 7 DDoS attacks several times."
"Its unique interface for managing security performance and ease of use are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The dashboard is good and user-friendly."
"The solution has a very good interface."
"It fits our requirements, as well as our budget."
"It is an effective threat mitigation tool."
"It needs proper HTTP/2 support."
"I would like to see better search handling, and a user interface, with a complete functional graphical unit"
"HAProxy could improve by making the dashboards easier to use, and better reports and administration tickets."
"While troubleshooting, we are having some difficulties. There are no issues when it is running; it is stable and very good; however, if there is a troubleshooting issue or an incident occurs, we will have issues because this is open-source."
"The solution can be improved by controlling TCP behavior better and mandating to clients what the expected outcome must be in order to avoid receiving contestant timeout logs."
"Documentation could be improved."
"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."
"Sometimes it's challenging to get through the log, and you need a log to understand what is going on. It isn't easy to map the logging with the documentation, and every time I read the log, I have to pull out the documentation to understand what I'm reading."
"It would be better if we were able to manage and apply changes to multiple websites/web applications, and search WAF logs for multiple websites, via the Incapsula dashboard."
"The log analytics interface within Incapsula isn't really good. For example, if you have to get all logs from there, it's a very cumbersome process."
"The rules surrounding the making of web applications could be improved."
"Imperva now offers add-ons to add functionality, but I would like to see these included in the product, even if it would cost more."
"Certificate management could be improved."
"Imperva DDoS does not provide version control."
"Some maintenance must be performed by our IT team."
"Imperva always needs to adjust to new versions of cyber attacks, it needs to be faster, improve the resiliency of the software of the solution."
HAProxy is ranked 3rd in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 41 reviews while Imperva DDoS is ranked 7th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 74 reviews. HAProxy is rated 8.2, while Imperva DDoS is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of HAProxy writes "Useful for for small and quick load-balancing tasks". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Imperva DDoS writes "I like the content monitoring feature which I haven't seen in other WAF solutions". HAProxy is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus, Kemp LoadMaster and Citrix NetScaler, whereas Imperva DDoS is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, Arbor DDoS, Radware DefensePro and F5 Shape Security.
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