Manager - IT Infrastructure and Network at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
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2024-08-20T03:19:35Z
Aug 20, 2024
If your team knows the product well, integrating HAProxy with IT workflow is easy. Otherwise, it is not easy. I would recommend the solution to other users. Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.
Software Engineer at a non-profit with 1,001-5,000 employees
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2024-04-03T11:44:21Z
Apr 3, 2024
There are better tools, but the product does the job well. All my colleagues know the tool and have used it. I recommend the product to others. Companies that have complex environments must not choose HAProxy. Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.
I have used load balancing on the TCP layer. I have not used the product for areas like HTTP and HTTPS. I have not used the product for web or API applications. I have only used the product for the TCP part. HAProxy improved our company's applications' availability. I had a use case in my company where we had to connect to one of my voice servers from a back-end proxy for which I had used HAProxy. HAProxy helped me when I had to distribute the traffic between all the voice servers from a single application in my company. HAProxy's most valuable feature for network traffic management stems from the functionalities attached to the area revolving around TCP load balancers since it has helped me achieve excellent results. To those who plan to use the product, I would say that they need to consider including the HTTP proxy part product, similar to the offerings made by NGINX. The product's potential users can introduce a lot of modules, which can help HAProxy when compared with NGINX. I did not face any challenges with the integration capabilities of the product. My organizational objectives were achievable with HAProxy. Considering the tool's TCP part, I rate the overall tool a seven out of ten.
I give the solution an eight out of ten. We're a very small company of 400 employees, so there are only two of us in VoIP engineering who maintain all the equipment, which includes phones, Metaswitch, and LoadBalancer.org. The solution is maintained by one person taking only one hour a day to monitor the logs and apply new rules. The solution is a layer seven device that allows your traffic to flow through. So if you are running any type of web interface for your customers, put a WAF in front of it that will allow you to limit the traffic that goes to the backend.
The advice I would give to others looking to implement HAProxy is to go with the on-prem version if you can. The cloud version is a bit different because a lot depends on HAProxy's compatibility with the cloud vendor itself. I would say to stick with the solution your cloud provider has put out. On a scale of one to ten, with one being the worst and 10 being the best, I would give HAProxy a nine overall.
It will primarily be determined by the budget, the size of their company's budget, or if you have the budget. I would always recommend the F5. Because it has more clarity and more features are available in the F5, if budget is an issue, go with HAProxy. It's a good product. If you are not utilizing very basic things that you should be using for the HAProxy. Depending on the balance If the balance is very minimal, they should use HAProxy, an open-source solution, but if the balance is larger, such as an enterprise, they should use F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic. I would rate HAProxy an eight out of ten.
UNIX System Administrator at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
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2021-11-10T07:23:25Z
Nov 10, 2021
I would rate HAProxy nine out of 10. My biggest recommendation for any new HAProxy user is to read Load Balancing With HAProxy by Nick Ramirez. If you're thinking about using HAProxy and you want to get your feet wet, read this book and follow along with it. Determine whether you're trying to do an HAProxy for a web service or something else and concentrate specifically on those pieces. I read the whole book and enjoyed it, but you can focus on one thing if you need to. This book is short, and you can just read the whole thing to understand it.
Director at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
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2021-07-23T09:21:59Z
Jul 23, 2021
We have currently deployed it for one product. For non-critical applications, it is a good choice. You can definitely go for it if you have cost concerns, your application is not very dynamic, or you are looking for a basic load balancing product. I would rate HAProxy a six out of 10.
Network security at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
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2020-08-30T08:33:45Z
Aug 30, 2020
I would recommend HAProxy because it is free in the initial offer, which would work for low budget enterprises that don't have much to start with. I would rate HAProxy a seven out of ten.
UNIX System Administrator at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
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2019-06-04T07:43:00Z
Jun 4, 2019
Once the container is set up, the time it takes to deploy is typically under a minute. That is a full-blown solution with all the plugins and images that I'm planning on using. I'm pretty happy with it. I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.
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...
If your team knows the product well, integrating HAProxy with IT workflow is easy. Otherwise, it is not easy. I would recommend the solution to other users. Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.
There are better tools, but the product does the job well. All my colleagues know the tool and have used it. I recommend the product to others. Companies that have complex environments must not choose HAProxy. Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.
I have used load balancing on the TCP layer. I have not used the product for areas like HTTP and HTTPS. I have not used the product for web or API applications. I have only used the product for the TCP part. HAProxy improved our company's applications' availability. I had a use case in my company where we had to connect to one of my voice servers from a back-end proxy for which I had used HAProxy. HAProxy helped me when I had to distribute the traffic between all the voice servers from a single application in my company. HAProxy's most valuable feature for network traffic management stems from the functionalities attached to the area revolving around TCP load balancers since it has helped me achieve excellent results. To those who plan to use the product, I would say that they need to consider including the HTTP proxy part product, similar to the offerings made by NGINX. The product's potential users can introduce a lot of modules, which can help HAProxy when compared with NGINX. I did not face any challenges with the integration capabilities of the product. My organizational objectives were achievable with HAProxy. Considering the tool's TCP part, I rate the overall tool a seven out of ten.
Based on customer stability and varying use cases, I recommend choosing this solution. I would rate it nine out of ten.
I would definitely recommend using the solution. Overall, I would rate the solution a nine out of ten.
I rate this solution six out of 10.
I give the solution an eight out of ten. We're a very small company of 400 employees, so there are only two of us in VoIP engineering who maintain all the equipment, which includes phones, Metaswitch, and LoadBalancer.org. The solution is maintained by one person taking only one hour a day to monitor the logs and apply new rules. The solution is a layer seven device that allows your traffic to flow through. So if you are running any type of web interface for your customers, put a WAF in front of it that will allow you to limit the traffic that goes to the backend.
I would rate HAProxy an eight out of ten.
The advice I would give to others looking to implement HAProxy is to go with the on-prem version if you can. The cloud version is a bit different because a lot depends on HAProxy's compatibility with the cloud vendor itself. I would say to stick with the solution your cloud provider has put out. On a scale of one to ten, with one being the worst and 10 being the best, I would give HAProxy a nine overall.
It will primarily be determined by the budget, the size of their company's budget, or if you have the budget. I would always recommend the F5. Because it has more clarity and more features are available in the F5, if budget is an issue, go with HAProxy. It's a good product. If you are not utilizing very basic things that you should be using for the HAProxy. Depending on the balance If the balance is very minimal, they should use HAProxy, an open-source solution, but if the balance is larger, such as an enterprise, they should use F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic. I would rate HAProxy an eight out of ten.
We are end-users and customers. We don't have a business relationship with the solution. I would rate the solution at a seven out of ten.
I would rate HAProxy nine out of 10. My biggest recommendation for any new HAProxy user is to read Load Balancing With HAProxy by Nick Ramirez. If you're thinking about using HAProxy and you want to get your feet wet, read this book and follow along with it. Determine whether you're trying to do an HAProxy for a web service or something else and concentrate specifically on those pieces. I read the whole book and enjoyed it, but you can focus on one thing if you need to. This book is short, and you can just read the whole thing to understand it.
We have currently deployed it for one product. For non-critical applications, it is a good choice. You can definitely go for it if you have cost concerns, your application is not very dynamic, or you are looking for a basic load balancing product. I would rate HAProxy a six out of 10.
I would recommend HAProxy because it is free in the initial offer, which would work for low budget enterprises that don't have much to start with. I would rate HAProxy a seven out of ten.
Once the container is set up, the time it takes to deploy is typically under a minute. That is a full-blown solution with all the plugins and images that I'm planning on using. I'm pretty happy with it. I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.