HAProxy and Microsoft Azure Application Gateway are prominent in load balancing and application delivery control. HAProxy is often seen as the more cost-effective and high-performance option, while Azure Application Gateway shines with its robust features and integration within the Azure ecosystem.
Features: HAProxy is recognized for its flexibility, speed, and reliability. Users appreciate its customizable nature and efficient performance in diverse environments. Azure Application Gateway is appreciated for its scalability, advanced security features, and seamless integration with Azure services. It provides a comprehensive suite of capabilities suited for cloud environments.
Room for Improvement: HAProxy users desire enhanced reporting and monitoring capabilities. They also seek better analytics for more informed decision-making. Azure Application Gateway users wish for clear pricing information, faster setup times, and streamlined complex configurations. These improvements could enhance user experience significantly.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: HAProxy offers straightforward deployment, although users recommend better documentation to simplify the process. Azure Application Gateway is noted for its integration with Azure tools, yet customer support response times could be quicker. HAProxy allows extensive customization, while Azure Application Gateway benefits from Azure's support infrastructure.
Pricing and ROI: HAProxy is valued for its low setup costs, offering strong ROI. Cost-effective from the start, it appeals to those with budget constraints. Azure Application Gateway provides significant ROI over time due to its feature set. However, concerns exist about its complex pricing tiers, which can be challenging for potential users to navigate. The advanced features of Azure Application Gateway justify its higher long-term investment.
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.
Azure Application Gateway is a web traffic load balancer that enables you to manage traffic to your web applications. Traditional load balancers operate at the transport layer (OSI layer 4 - TCP and UDP) and route traffic based on source IP address and port, to a destination IP address and port.
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