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."
"HAProxy potentially has a good return on investment"
"Performance configuration options with threads, processes, and core stickiness are very valuable."
"It reduced the load on our main load balancers."
"I estimate that this product has saved our company hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars in possible downtime from previous load balancers. We make a lot of our money from online sales, so it is critical to have 99.9% uptime."
"It is stable. Period. Will not fail unless you do something wrong."
"The feature that I have found the most valuable is that it works for my use case of application load balancing. I'm using it for PeerSense, and it's easy enough for PeerSense."
"I am also able to make configuration changes during the day, in production, with no worries of problems and/or downtime occurring."
"HAProxy's TCP load balancer is excellent and super stable."
"The product must provide more flexibility."
"The GUI should be more responsive and show the detailed output of logs."
"We would like to see dynamic ACL and port update support. Our infrastructure relies on randomly allocated ports and this feature would allow us to update without restarting the process."
"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."
"We've changed solutions as it doesn't fit with our current needs."
"Documentation could be improved."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model. It could be cheaper."
"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)."
"Dynamic update API. More things should be possible to be configured during runtime."
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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