We did not evaluate any other options before landing on HAProxy. 

We evaluated NGINX prior to using this product.

HAProxy is something that we manage ourselves, so we cannot directly compare it with Amazon CloudFront. If we only focus on technology, it is the same features. The only reason we switched is because of management costs.

NGINX is easier to configure and is well-suited for load balancing against an application server. However, HAProxy is more versatile and can be fine-tuned for various scenarios, particularly in load-balancing multiple application servers. In terms of deployment, HAProxy is easy to integrate into a green-blue deployment approach. It allows for simpler configuration and sending commands to its sockets.

The main difference between HAProxy and other solutions on the market is that it is open source. Otherwise, functional-wise, it's the same.

I had a look at Nginx for the reverse proxy part but I preferred the typology of the writing of HAProxy.

NTLM/F5 hardware, nginx.

Only lately, nginx has introduced an advanced "proxy" product. It is okay, but HAProxy is better in terms of performance and stability.

I chose this solution because I have to operate within a Docker container, and this is the only one that I could get to work.

We looked at NGINX and Squid.

We are mainly using HAProxy Community Edition on our own servers. We also use this solution depending on our needs, but maintenance and upgrades are more complicated.

We did not evaluate any other options. We considered looking at Barracuda’s offerings, but after a few days of evaluating HAProxy, we decided that it would be the best fit for us.

Yes. HAProxy was chosen as it met our needs and because of the generous donation of an HA license pair by the HAProxy team.

I did look at NGINX.

We strongly prefer to go with Open Source solutions. We evaluated https://www.loadbalancer.org/ as well. We went with Aloha because of the in-house expertise that Aloha has. The primary developer of HAProxy works there.

We did not evaluate other options before the solution. We were not happy with the solution's performance so we switched to Load Balancing Analytics. 

Citrix Netscaler and Kemp LoadMaster.

Yeah, but I don't remember it, because the other product was very bad in comparison to HAProxy.

We evaluated at least four to five other products.

We pretty much know all the software out there and its capabilities, so we did not evaluate anything else.

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