We performed a comparison between HAProxy and Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall 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 features I find valuable in this solution are session control which automatically disconnects users that forget to log off, and the ability to write rules to either allow or block certain file requests."
"It has allowed us to evenly distribute the load across a number of servers, and check their health and automatically react to errors."
"I can't speak to all of the HAProxy features because we don't use them all, but load balancing is very good."
"Tech support is super-quick to respond, and always on target with answers specific to the current issue."
"Load balancing is valuable, and we are also using the WAF feature."
"We did not need technical support because the documentation is good."
"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 most valuable feature of HAProxy is that its open source."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is that it is simple to deploy. The deployment took us ten minutes."
"We've changed solutions as it doesn't fit with our current needs."
"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."
"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."
"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 logging functionality could use improvement, as it is a little cryptic."
"HAProxy is very weak in the logging and monitoring part and requires improvement."
"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."
"In terms of what needs improvement, the price could be lowered. We've tried to deploy more of them but our purchasing department has said that they're way too expensive and they would prefer to use something else."
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HAProxy is ranked 3rd in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 41 reviews while Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall is ranked 18th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC). HAProxy is rated 8.2, while Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of HAProxy writes "Useful for for small and quick load-balancing tasks". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall writes "Good feature set and is simple to deploy ". HAProxy is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus, Kemp LoadMaster, Citrix NetScaler and Envoy, whereas Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), NGINX Plus, Citrix NetScaler, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway and Avi Networks Software Load Balancer.
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