Barracuda Load Balancer ADC and HAProxy are products designed to enhance application performance through efficient load balancing. While Barracuda excels in customer support and pricing, HAProxy is deemed superior due to its robust feature set.
Features: Barracuda Load Balancer ADC is recognized for comprehensive security features, ease of use in handling SSL offloading, and application protection. HAProxy provides strong flexibility, advanced routing capabilities, and support for a wide range of protocols.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Barracuda Load Balancer ADC offers seamless deployment with excellent technical support, ensuring minimal downtime. HAProxy, with extensive customization options, requires more technical expertise, impacting deployment time.
Pricing and ROI: Barracuda Load Balancer ADC has a higher initial setup cost but promises ROI through support services and bundled security features. HAProxy's lower upfront cost appeals to budget-conscious buyers, benefiting from its open-source nature for long-term savings, but may require technical expertise affecting operational costs. Barracuda provides a more predictable cost structure for quicker ROI, whereas HAProxy offers a financially lower barrier to entry.
HAProxy is considered by many in the industry to be one of the fastest and most popular and trusted software load balancer products in the marketplace today. Organizations are able to immediately deploy HAProxy solutions to enable websites and applications to optimize performance, security, and observability. HAProxy solutions are available to scale to any environment.
HAProxy is an open-source product and has a robust, active, reliable community. The solutions are continually tested and improved on by the community. HAProxy offers a dynamic design to support the most modern architectures, microservices, and deployment environments (appliances, containers, virtual, and cloud).
HAProxy utilizes a cloud-native protocol, which makes it a complete solution for cloud services such as Red Hat OpenShift, OVH, Rackspace, Digital Ocean, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and more. It also can be used as the reference load balancer in OpenStack.
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Reviews from Real Users
“Having the right load balancing solution – which is what HAProxy is – and protection in place gives organizations peace of mind.” - Nathanel S., Platform Architect at SES
“I use HAProxy for individuals who can not buy low balancers. I built NFV in a box and send individuals a pathway into an HAProxy VM. The setup was not difficult; it usually takes a day to complete for a VPC. When it comes to pricing, HAProxy is free.” - Nasir O., Network & Cloud Architect at Koala Compute Inc.
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