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)."HAProxy potentially has a good return on investment"
"The most valuable thing for me is TCP/IP Layer 4 stuff you can do with HAProxy. You can go down to the protocol level and make decisions on something."
"We don't have a problem with the user interface. it's good."
"The VRRP redundancy is also a mission-critical feature that works seamlessly. I can bring down a server live with minimal downtime because of this."
"I have found HAProxy very helpful in replicating production environment architecture in a development and testing environment."
"It improves our scalability and responsiveness services to meet our demanding customer requirements."
"The support for all major Linux distros makes running and testing a breeze."
"We use it as a load balancer for our application servers."
"This product is a reliable defense from malicious attacks on a network environment."
"The solution has a very good interface."
"They're quite easy to install and quite easy to set up. Clients really like that. Especially when you're dealing with the cloud, it's really easy."
"The setup of Imperva DDoS was easy."
"Scalability is pretty easy on the base platform. You just add another, and you're ready to go."
"Technical support was very helpful."
"Integration with IBM AS/400 and Db2 is okay."
"On the real time, you can see live traffic, which is flowing into our website."
"The product does not have any new technologies."
"The logging functionality could use improvement, as it is a little cryptic."
"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."
"It needs proper HTTP/2 support."
"There is room for improvement in HAProxy's dynamic configuration."
"Pricing, monitoring, and reports can be improved."
"HAProxy could improve by making the dashboards easier to use, and better reports and administration tickets."
"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."
"I miss being able to integrate the dashboard with other BI tools we are using. We have to export and import data to be able to present it, and doing so is a lot of work."
"It's quite expensive."
"The rules surrounding the making of web applications could be improved."
"Some maintenance must be performed by our IT team."
"Its price could be improved. It is quite expensive. It will be good if we could export the configuration. Currently, to control the configuration, we need to go to each website, which is not very convenient."
"I would like to have support for SSL management and secure DNS."
"The product could use a broader scope in the area of policies."
"Incapsula services also provides load balancing services for their service IP address environment. So far, with monitoring their services, the IP address was only changed once."
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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