We performed a comparison between HAProxy and Radware Alteon based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."HAProxy Enterprise Edition has been rock solid. We have essentially had no downtime caused by our load balancers in the last 10 months, because they’ve worked so well. Previously, our load balancers caused us multiple hours per year in downtime."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of HAProxy is that its open source."
"It has allowed us to evenly distribute the load across a number of servers, and check their health and automatically react to errors."
"We use it as a load balancer for our application servers."
"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."
"Performance configuration options with threads, processes, and core stickiness are very valuable."
"The UI is user-friendly."
"I like the ADC feature and the global certificate feature."
"I found the link load balancer and server load balancer are the most valuable."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its stability. During the time that I have been using it, it has not undergone a service failure... And with the integrated application protection, we have not suffered from attacks anymore."
"Radware has been characterized by being extremely robust. This gives us the confidence to offer our users a continuous service."
"The command line interface is simple and very user-friendly."
"It is easy to expand. Our clients are enterprise-size."
"Security is one of the most valuable features that I like. It is easy to use and easy to configure."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model. It could be cheaper."
"The visibility could be improved."
"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."
"Maybe HAProxy could be more modular."
"Radware Alteon could improve the troubleshooting from the command line interface, they could do a better job making it easier."
"I would like for the load balancing to work with premier and the cloud, a mix of premium and cloud."
"We don't integrate anything with it because most things don't integrate with Radware. If it were F5, we could integrate it. We can integrate F5 with practically anything that integrates with a load balancer, but that's not the case with Alteon."
"We recently had a problem with the tables Obsolete ARP which was observed by the support team. It would be good to diagnose and solve this problem with a patch since it is not documented that it will be solved in later updates."
"I would like to see future enhancements in security, specifically in threat protection."
"The solution could be more open to additional third-party add-ons being integrated into it."
"We’d like the solution to include more security features in the standard license."
"Recently our team was talking about the things you can customize in Alteon and the level of programming that doing so demands. I would like to see more information on how to customize the programming and troubleshoot."
HAProxy is ranked 3rd in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 41 reviews while Radware Alteon is ranked 7th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 33 reviews. HAProxy is rated 8.2, while Radware Alteon is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of HAProxy writes "Useful for for small and quick load-balancing tasks". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Radware Alteon writes "It's a good fit for a small team because the maintenance is easier and you don't need to know how to code". HAProxy is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus, Kemp LoadMaster, Citrix NetScaler and Avi Networks Software Load Balancer, whereas Radware Alteon is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Citrix NetScaler, F5 Advanced WAF, A10 Networks Thunder ADC and NGINX Plus. See our HAProxy vs. Radware Alteon report.
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