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)."The solution is user-friendly and efficient."
"HAProxy's TCP load balancer is excellent and super stable."
"Tech support is super-quick to respond, and always on target with answers specific to the current issue."
"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."
"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."
"Advanced traffic rules, including stick tables and ACLs, which allow me to shape traffic while it's load balanced."
"The technical support has been, in one word, perfect. Every time I call, I’m on the phone with a representative within five minutes who is highly skilled and willing to help, whether in the case of critical issues or simple advice."
"Performance configuration options with threads, processes, and core stickiness are very valuable."
"On the site security, I can see which countries have incidents, whether it was a robot attack, a real human user, or non-human user."
"It blocks all types of attacks."
"Its unique interface for managing security performance and ease of use are the most valuable features of this solution."
"Scalability is pretty easy on the base platform. You just add another, and you're ready to go."
"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."
"Simplifies putting everything in code."
"On the real time, you can see live traffic, which is flowing into our website."
"We have peace of mind that nobody will use malware on us or try to hack our website."
"We've changed solutions as it doesn't fit with our current needs."
"They should introduce one feature that I know many people, including me, are waiting for: HAProxy should have provide hot-swipe for back-end servers. Also, they need a more detailed GUI for monitoring and configuration."
"Documentation could be improved."
"HAProxy is very weak in the logging and monitoring part and requires improvement."
"The logging functionality could use improvement, as it is a little cryptic."
"The product does not have any new technologies."
"There are three main areas to improve: 1) Make remote management more modern by adding API. 2) Propose a general HA solution for HAProxy (no I'm using keepalived for this). 3) Thread option should be a bit more stable."
"Improving the documentation with multiple examples and scenarios would be beneficial. Most users encounter similar situations, so having a variety of scenarios readily available on the tool's website would be helpful. For instance, if I were part of the HAProxy team, I'd create a webpage with different scenarios and provide files for each scenario. This way, users wouldn't have to start from scratch every time."
"It would be beneficial to include vulnerability management in the solution, similar to what they have for their on-premise solution."
"The solution needs to improve Integration with third parties for their on-prem deployment models. The integration is not that good yet."
"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."
"The weakest point of Imperva is their first level of support, which should be improved. They should also improve the access and security logs viewing directly on the portal. I would like to see better access and security logs through the portal and not only through a SIM solution. Currently, if you want to explore your access and security logs from Imperva, you need a SIM tool or a SIM infrastructure on your side to do it. You can't do it manually or directly through the portal, which is a big problem for us. I had a call yesterday with Imperva for the roadmap, and I just told them this. They agreed that this is an improvement point from their side."
"The rules surrounding the making of web applications could be improved."
"I am not sure if this application has a policy where you can create your custom policy and run it as our firewall. We should have some ability to also create some custom policy, then run it as a firewall."
"Imperva should have more points of presence in Africa."
"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 6th 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 Prolexic.
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