Kemp LoadMaster and HAProxy are both in the load balancing solutions market. HAProxy seems to have the upper hand with superior features despite Kemp LoadMaster's reputation for favorable pricing and support.
Features: Kemp LoadMaster is known for its intuitive controls, diverse security features, and ease-of-use, while HAProxy offers robust customization options, advanced traffic management capabilities, and a highly scalable architecture.
Room for Improvement: Kemp LoadMaster could enhance its scalability, integration options, and reporting tools. HAProxy users suggest improvements in its documentation, ease of updates, and interface polish to better facilitate user interaction.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Kemp LoadMaster offers smooth deployment processes and responsive technical support, whereas HAProxy's deployment is slightly more complex but benefits from a strong community support base.
Pricing and ROI: Kemp LoadMaster is noted for its cost-effectiveness and clear ROI, making it attractive to budget-conscious buyers. HAProxy may have a higher initial setup cost, but its scalability and performance provide strong long-term ROI perceptions.
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.
Kemp LoadMaster is a powerful load balancing solution that also serves as a web application firewall. Its primary use case is load balancing and application load balancing, making it an ideal solution for organizations that must distribute traffic across multiple servers. Kemp's integration with an active directory for ESP usage, hosting/deployment of SSL certificates, and pricing are some of its most valuable features.
Using Kemp has helped organizations mitigate cross-scripting vulnerabilities, cookie-related issues, and content security policy issues. It has also allowed them to handle everything with Kemp instead of working on each application individually.
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