We performed a comparison between HAProxy and Radware LinkProof 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."It improves our scalability and responsiveness services to meet our demanding customer requirements."
"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."
"Load balancing is valuable, and we are also using the WAF feature."
"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."
"Stability is number one."
"Scalable and inexpensive."
"I am also able to make configuration changes during the day, in production, with no worries of problems and/or downtime occurring."
"The most valuable thing for me is TCP/IP Layer 4 stuff you can do with HAProxy. You can go down to the protocol level and make decisions on something."
"The most valuable feature of Radware LinkProof for traffic distribution is its DNS management capability."
"The most valuable feature of Radware LinkProof is that it supports link load balance."
"Provides good performance and scalability."
"The performance and stability are the most valuable features."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"I would like to see better search handling, and a user interface, with a complete functional graphical unit"
"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."
"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."
"Documentation could be improved."
"If nbproc = 2, you will have two processes of HAProxy running. However, the stats of HAProxy will not be aggregated, meaning you don't really know the collective status in a single point of view."
"I would like to evaluate load-balancing algorithms other than round robin and SSL offloading. Also, it would be helpful if I could logically divide the HAProxy load-balancing into multiple entities so that I would install one HA Proxy LB application which could be used for different Web servers for different applications. I am not sure if these features are available."
"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."
"Radware LinkProof’s customer support could be improved."
"There are certain features I would like to see in the next release."
"The solution lacks HA configuration."
"Radware LinkProof's marketing efforts need improvement to raise awareness about its capabilities and compete effectively in the market."
"Could have more customizations on the dashboard."
HAProxy is ranked 3rd in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 41 reviews while Radware LinkProof is ranked 13th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 5 reviews. HAProxy is rated 8.2, while Radware LinkProof 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 Radware LinkProof writes "Supports link load balance and has good stability". HAProxy is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus, Kemp LoadMaster, Citrix NetScaler and Envoy, whereas Radware LinkProof is most compared with Radware Alteon, A10 Networks Thunder ADC and Fortinet FortiADC. See our HAProxy vs. Radware LinkProof report.
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