The main use cases are for load balancing and limiting traffic. It is utilized as a front-end server for balancing HTTP traffic, as well as for balancing traffic between application servers and database servers like Redis and Elasticsearch. HAProxy is employed for both HTTP and TCP load balancing purposes, ensuring optimal resource utilization and preventing overloading of any single server.
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A versatile tool for load balancing and traffic management in different environments
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
When dealing with scenarios that require splitting or monitoring Redis clusters with external masters and two slaves, HAProxy becomes essential. This is because HAProxy can significantly reduce delays in Redis communication when switching roles between servers. This reduction in delay improves application load time and prevents unnecessary downtime during server switchovers. It is a crucial tool in ensuring smooth service provision without any interruptions.
What needs improvement?
There is room for improvement in HAProxy's dynamic configuration. Currently, dynamic changes are lost when reloading the service, and it would be beneficial if dynamic configuration changes could be applied without losing the configuration or reloading the service, ensuring backups and preserving the static configuration.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using it for six years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I would rate its stability capabilities nine out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It provides impressive scalability. I would rate it ten out of ten.
How are customer service and support?
In a specific situation where a question was posted on a forum, the issue was successfully resolved within a day or the following day. I would rate their customer support services nine out of ten.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We worked with NGINX, but these two solutions are not entirely comparable as they serve different primary purposes. NGINX functions both as a web server and a reverse proxy server, while HAProxy is primarily a load-balancing proxy. They both have load-balancing capabilities, but their main focus and functionalities are distinct.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup can be challenging. I would rate it six out of ten.
What about the implementation team?
For simpler cases, the deployment process can take around one hour. For more complex scenarios, it can extend up to one week.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
We are using HAProxy as an open-source.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
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.
What other advice do I have?
Based on customer stability and varying use cases, I recommend choosing this solution. I would rate it nine out of ten.
Useful tool in a Web stack
What do you like best about the product?
Heavily customizable via Lua and responsive developers
What do you dislike about the product?
Arbitrary features are gated behind a paywall instead of being in the open-source product
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Routing requests from outside the containers' network to the correct container
Excellent Product and a Rock Solid Support
What do you like best about the product?
The product simply speaks of itself. We have been running the solution in our environtment for several years already and we haven't have any issues with our HAProxy setup aside from of course scheduled maintenance. Also we are on the quest to move our workload from on-prem to AWS cloud and the help we are getting from our account manager (Lamija) and to the technical teams (Chad/Bruno) were at the top. I also like how haproxy connects their pool of talents in Slack where they are just message away. With good documentation I can say that I was from "Zero" to almost "Hero" as I am still learning a lot with the product.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing much but I was a bit on the down side first when I started but as I go along reading documentation with answer from the HAProxy technical team - I'm getting better and more confident supporting our current implementation.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
With the introduction of HAProxy load balancing solution we manage to move away from hardware load balancing solution which give us the ability to scale out and open up the path to flexibility in terms of upgrade, total cost of overhead of maintaining physical devices and ease of maintaining the product altogether.
Experience
What do you like best about the product?
Private L7 Proxy SW
We use very long time in LINE Corp.
We use very long time in LINE Corp.
What do you dislike about the product?
I need OpenSource. not enterprise solution.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
L7 Ddos protection and Application SSL off load inspection
Balancing containers
What do you like best about the product?
Scaling Inside Kubernetes Cluster.
configuration options and deployment integration.
configuration options and deployment integration.
What do you dislike about the product?
When Running on VM and a failover or flapping of the underlying VRRP occurs automatic recovery of haproxy doesn't exists
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Scaling and flexibility
HA at its best, secure and reliable load balancing for our environment
What do you like best about the product?
HA is a really intuitive and trustworthy solution to secure environments against threats from untrusted networks.
What do you dislike about the product?
Every solution has room for improvement at anytime but at HA there are no explicit things i need to criticize.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
HA protects the environment against ddos really successfully
HAproxy
What do you like best about the product?
We have used HAproxy open source in our projects and highly satisfy either the performance and features it offers for the require complex setup. The implementation was seamless
What do you dislike about the product?
Not sure. May be we need to subscribe for more support and real-time updates. Otherwise there is nothing specific to say dislike about HAproxy. Thank you typing to
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is benefiting us from multiple aspects wherever the requirements are. The use case can be different for different customers. Likewise the same for our use case
HA Proxy on RH OpenShift
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to manage, configure and understand, how it works. Very fast and reliable.
What do you dislike about the product?
Well suitable for midsize companies and workloads. Enforce enterprise level usability.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Set HA proxy as a bypass between on-prem systems (no outbound internet traffic) and public cloud endpoints.
Awesome LB, SSL termination & tcp proxy
What do you like best about the product?
I am using HAProxy in prod for serving millions of requests monthly and i love the product. The ease of configurability and scalability and how lightweight HAProxy is is a game changer.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only thing that could be improved is maybe offer more storage backends or a native IP failover solution so we wont have to use ezternal software anymore
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Load balancing production workloads, managing and ACLing api access, and integrating ACLs for traffic limiting is awesome.
Using HAProxy for highly-available apps on Kubernetes
What do you like best about the product?
It helps me deploy highly-available apps on Kubernetes clusters
What do you dislike about the product?
Some features of the official HAProxy-Ingress-controller are still missing and available on community provided alternatives
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Making apps on Kubernetes clusters exposed outside of the cluster.
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