We performed a comparison between HAProxy and NGINX Plus 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."The anti-DDOS PacketShield filtering solution (embedded in the physical appliances) as well as the BGP route injection are great features and heavily used."
"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 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."
"The technical support has been, in one word, perfect. Every time I call, I’m on the phone with a representative within five minutes who is highly skilled and willing to help, whether in the case of critical issues or simple advice."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of HAProxy is that its open source."
"We were able to use HAProxy for round robin with our databases, or for a centralized TCP connection in one host."
"I need to highlight that the number one thing about NGINX is that it is free."
"NGINX works much better than HAProxy in our current hardware and architecture for HTTP/HTTPS load balancing. "
"The best solution, by far, for web traffic control for things in production and just around the house."
"When you use NGINX, you have more options and power."
"The product is lightweight and fast."
"NGINX Plus' most valuable feature is the ingress controller."
"Nginx is simple to configure, very stable in a highly utilized environment and very modular, allowing DevOps to create it's own modules for interactive use with Nginx."
"The most valuable features are the gateway and the ability to publish to sites."
"I would like to see better search handling, and a user interface, with a complete functional graphical unit"
"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."
"The product does not have any new technologies."
"HAProxy is very weak in the logging and monitoring part and requires improvement."
"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."
"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)."
"HAProxy could improve by making the dashboards easier to use, and better reports and administration tickets."
"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."
"NGINX is a very basic load balancer and cannot do as many customizations as F5."
"The solution must improve its performance."
"Improvement needed in NGINX Plus could focus on optimizing memory usage for users."
"Make modules easier to enable or disable. The beauty and ugly side of the NGINX modules is you have to know how to compile the module. For beginners or non-very technical aspirant(s) going for NGINX, they have to learn how to compile the modules."
"The solution needs to be easier to setup and deploy."
"It would be great if there was even more automation to make it even easier to maintain."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model."
"The center management system could be improved."
HAProxy is ranked 3rd in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 41 reviews while NGINX Plus is ranked 5th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 28 reviews. HAProxy is rated 8.2, while NGINX Plus 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 NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". HAProxy is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Kemp LoadMaster, Citrix NetScaler, Envoy and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), whereas NGINX Plus is most compared with IIS, Kemp LoadMaster, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Apache Web Server and Citrix NetScaler. See our HAProxy vs. NGINX Plus report.
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