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."It solves a problem for me where I can build files, not based on the health of the check, but rather the speed of the check."
"Performance configuration options with threads, processes, and core stickiness are very valuable."
"I have found HAProxy very helpful in replicating production environment architecture in a development and testing environment."
"It has allowed us to evenly distribute the load across a number of servers, and check their health and automatically react to errors."
"HAProxy's TCP load balancer is excellent and super stable."
"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 ease of use of the configuration, and great documentation, are the most valuable features for us."
"We were able to use HAProxy for round robin with our databases, or for a centralized TCP connection in one host."
"The product is lightweight and fast."
"NGINX Plus' most valuable feature is the ingress controller."
"Nginx is extremely efficient in terms of the connection rate to the CPU cycles ratio, and in terms of the bandwidth to CPU cycles."
"Supports IMAP, POP and SMTP protocols for the reverse proxy."
"When I worked in a security research center, we tested NGINX to support DoS and DDoS attacks, and its results were great."
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"NGINX Plus also has NGINX App Protect. It's a separate module, which is inspired by the F5 apps."
"Application Gateway with application-level firewall tool and load distributor and balancer (also serves for A/B testing)."
"There is no standardized document available. So, any individual has to work from scratch to work it out. If some standard deployment details are available, it would be helpful for people while deploying it. There should be more documentation on the standard deployment."
"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."
"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."
"Sometimes it's challenging to get through the log, and you need a log to understand what is going on. It isn't easy to map the logging with the documentation, and every time I read the log, I have to pull out the documentation to understand what I'm reading."
"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."
"Documentation could be improved."
"HAProxy could improve by making the dashboards easier to use, and better reports and administration tickets."
"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."
"I would like it to have a more user-friendly graphical interface."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model."
"The user interface could be improved."
"The solution must improve its performance."
"The drawback is that you must obtain a license for everything."
"The solution needs to be easier to setup and deploy."
"If NGINX brings some features for health check in the open source version, it would be better. "
"The KPI should be more focused on load balancing and the latency in application calling from the end system."
HAProxy is ranked 3rd in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 13 reviews while NGINX Plus is ranked 5th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 16 reviews. HAProxy is rated 8.2, while NGINX Plus is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of HAProxy writes "Open-source, simple to install, and reliable". 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, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Envoy, 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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