We performed a comparison between Akamai Ion and HAProxy based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."Akamai is easy to use and very effective."
"The most important features would be the load-balancing of HTTP and TCP requests, according to multiple LB-algorithms (busyness, weighted-busyness, round robin, traffic, etc). Another important feature that we cannot live without is the username/passwd authentication for legacy systems that had none."
"Having the right load balancing solution – which is what HAProxy is – and protection in place gives organizations peace of mind."
"HAProxy potentially has a good return on investment"
"The feature that I have found the most valuable is that it works for my use case of application load balancing. I'm using it for PeerSense, and it's easy enough for PeerSense."
"The most valuable feature of HAProxy is that its open source."
"It improves our scalability and responsiveness services to meet our demanding customer requirements."
"The solution is effective in managing our traffic."
"We don't have a problem with the user interface. it's good."
"The product must provide more flexibility."
"The product does not have any new technologies."
"HAProxy is very weak in the logging and monitoring part and requires improvement."
"The GUI should be more responsive and show the detailed output of logs."
"Pricing, monitoring, and reports can be improved."
"The only area that I can see needing improvement is the management interface, since it is pretty much all through the CLI or configuration. A GUI/web interface could be helpful for users who are not as experienced in the Linux shell. However, HAProxy does have another product that we evaluated called ALOHA, which has a web front-end, but we found it did not meet our needs."
"Maybe HAProxy could be more modular."
"There is room for improvement in HAProxy's dynamic configuration."
"I would like to see better search handling, and a user interface, with a complete functional graphical unit"
Akamai Ion is ranked 15th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 1 review while HAProxy is ranked 3rd in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 41 reviews. Akamai Ion is rated 7.0, while HAProxy is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Akamai Ion writes "Helps optimize the content delivery network, but doesn’t provide much flexibility". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HAProxy writes "Useful for for small and quick load-balancing tasks". Akamai Ion is most compared with NGINX Plus, whereas HAProxy is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus, Kemp LoadMaster, Citrix NetScaler and Envoy.
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