We performed a comparison between HAProxy and Imperva DDoS 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 anti-DDOS PacketShield filtering solution (embedded in the physical appliances) as well as the BGP route injection are great features and heavily used."
"Software defined load balancing allows us to dynamically adjust and codify routing decisions. This speeds up development."
"Performance configuration options with threads, processes, and core stickiness are very valuable."
"HAProxy potentially has a good return on investment"
"Load balancing is valuable, and we are also using the WAF feature."
"It is stable. Period. Will not fail unless you do something wrong."
"The most valuable feature of HAProxy is that its open source."
"Reliability. HAProxy is the most reliable product I have ever used."
"Technical support provides good, quick responses."
"It blocks all types of attacks."
"We use Imperva DDoS to stop DDoS attacks and reduce the amount of unwanted queries against web services or web scraping."
"Imperva Incapsula has many valuable features. One, it protects the top 10 OWAS vulnerability, the open web application software platform, this is standard. Secondly, it protects against broken authentication. As well, it has remote execution of code."
"IncapRules is one of the most valuable features, as you can create your own security and access control rules on top of your security policy. Using IncapRules we were able to easily block Layer 7 DDoS attacks several times."
"We have peace of mind that nobody will use malware on us or try to hack our website."
"On the real time, you can see live traffic, which is flowing into our website."
"Incapsula takes care of the CDN infrastructure and bandwidth volume, providing several enterprise "load balancing" features."
"I would like to see better search handling, and a user interface, with a complete functional graphical unit"
"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."
"It needs proper HTTP/2 support."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model. It could be cheaper."
"The configuration should be more friendly, perhaps with a Web interface. For example, I work with the ClusterControl product for Severalnines, and we have a Web interface to deploy the HAProxy load-balancer."
"HAProxy could do with some good combination integrations."
"Maybe HAProxy could be more modular."
"The GUI should be more responsive and show the detailed output of logs."
"The solution needs to improve Integration with third parties for their on-prem deployment models. The integration is not that good yet."
"It would be better if we were able to manage and apply changes to multiple websites/web applications, and search WAF logs for multiple websites, via the Incapsula dashboard."
"The rules surrounding the making of web applications could be improved."
"We had an issue when securing the web applications for DDoS protection."
"We would like them to hire people in Sweden because it's quite hard when people are sitting in the UK or Belgium because some of the customers really want them to be local."
"I am not sure if this application has a policy where you can create your custom policy and run it as our firewall. We should have some ability to also create some custom policy, then run it as a firewall."
"Imperva now offers add-ons to add functionality, but I would like to see these included in the product, even if it would cost more."
"The log analytics interface within Incapsula isn't really good. For example, if you have to get all logs from there, it's a very cumbersome process."
HAProxy is ranked 3rd in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 41 reviews while Imperva DDoS is ranked 6th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 74 reviews. HAProxy is rated 8.2, while Imperva DDoS is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of HAProxy writes "Offers good integration capabilities but needs to improve the monitoring part". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Imperva DDoS writes "I like the content monitoring feature which I haven't seen in other WAF solutions". HAProxy is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus, Kemp LoadMaster and Citrix NetScaler, whereas Imperva DDoS is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, Arbor DDoS, Radware DefensePro and Prolexic.
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