We performed a comparison between Barracuda Web Application Firewall and HAProxy based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), F5, Microsoft and others in Web Application Firewall (WAF)."The installation is straightforward."
"Has a good dashboard."
"Even when we were upgrading to a new OS, we didn't have any difficulties with the product. The stability is good."
"You don't need help from Barracuda to help with the deployment. The deployment is easy."
"It is stable and the performance is good."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the simplicity of configuration."
"There is no one special feature, but the WAF itself is valuable: user-friendly protection against web attacks etc., authentication, reporting, accountability, alerting, and hardened OS."
"The stability of the product is good. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"I can't speak to all of the HAProxy features because we don't use them all, but load balancing is very good."
"What I like best about the product is its simplicity and speed. When you need to set up a load balancer quickly, HAProxy offers options like sticky sessions and round-robin. It's also fast to configure, including adding SSL for security. While it may have fewer options than other solutions like F5, HAProxy gets the job done for basic load-balancing tasks."
"We did not need technical support because the documentation is good."
"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."
"Software defined load balancing allows us to dynamically adjust and codify routing decisions. This speeds up development."
"Stability is number one."
"I have found HAProxy very helpful in replicating production environment architecture in a development and testing environment."
"HAProxy's TCP load balancer is excellent and super stable."
"The GUI needs to be improved because it sometimes hangs and needs to be restarted."
"This product could easily progress to be among the industry leaders. I think they need to improve enterprise level automation. It integrates with a small number of vulnerability scanners, so report results should be imported manually; same for SIEM integration."
"The incident reporting needs to be improved."
"I think the main area for improvement in this product is learning it, as can be seen when comparing it to the F5 web application firewall. F5 has a very powerful learning phase when you start using your web application firewall against your site. Barracuda has something like this, but not with the same functionality from my point of view."
"Its interface can be better. It is not very friendly."
"As most people are aware, the implementation is not easy."
"Barracuda Web Application Firewall’s scalability needs improvement."
"One of Barracuda's limitations is its user interface. The GUI for configuration is not intuitive and has remained largely unchanged for the past 10 to 12 years."
"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."
"I would like to see better search handling, and a user interface, with a complete functional graphical unit"
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model. It could be cheaper."
"HAProxy could improve by making the dashboards easier to use, and better reports and administration tickets."
"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."
"Pricing, monitoring, and reports can be improved."
"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."
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Barracuda Web Application Firewall is ranked 14th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 38 reviews while HAProxy is ranked 3rd in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 41 reviews. Barracuda Web Application Firewall is rated 8.2, while HAProxy is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Barracuda Web Application Firewall writes "Provides strong issue discovery capabilities; enhance the security parameters of web applications and suitable for medium to large enterprises". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HAProxy writes "Useful for for small and quick load-balancing tasks". Barracuda Web Application Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, F5 Advanced WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Kemp LoadMaster and Radware Alteon, whereas HAProxy is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus, Kemp LoadMaster, Citrix NetScaler and Avi Networks Software Load Balancer.
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