We performed a comparison between HAProxy and NGINX Plus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Performance configuration options with threads, processes, and core stickiness are very valuable."
"Reliability. HAProxy is the most reliable product I have ever used."
"The ability to handle a sequence of front- and back-ends gives the user the opportunity to send traffic through different services."
"The solution is effective in managing our traffic."
"We don't have a problem with the user interface. it's good."
"The technical support has been, in one word, perfect. Every time I call, I’m on the phone with a representative within five minutes who is highly skilled and willing to help, whether in the case of critical issues or simple advice."
"Scalable and inexpensive."
"The solution is user-friendly and efficient."
"Nginx is simple to configure, very stable in a highly utilized environment and very modular, allowing DevOps to create it's own modules for interactive use with Nginx."
"I think installation only took a couple of minutes — no more than 10 minutes."
"NGINX Plus also has NGINX App Protect. It's a separate module, which is inspired by the F5 apps."
"When you use NGINX, you have more options and power."
"Nginx is extremely efficient in terms of the connection rate to the CPU cycles ratio, and in terms of the bandwidth to CPU cycles."
"NGINX Plus' most valuable feature is the ingress controller."
"The product is resilient."
"When I worked in a security research center, we tested NGINX to support DoS and DDoS attacks, and its results were great."
"The product does not have any new technologies."
"While troubleshooting, we are having some difficulties. There are no issues when it is running; it is stable and very good; however, if there is a troubleshooting issue or an incident occurs, we will have issues because this is open-source."
"HAProxy is very weak in the logging and monitoring part and requires improvement."
"Sometimes it's challenging to get through the log, and you need a log to understand what is going on. It isn't easy to map the logging with the documentation, and every time I read the log, I have to pull out the documentation to understand what I'm reading."
"They should introduce one feature that I know many people, including me, are waiting for: HAProxy should have provide hot-swipe for back-end servers. Also, they need a more detailed GUI for monitoring and configuration."
"We need to handle new connections by dropping, or queuing them while the HAProxy restarts, and because HAProxy does not handle split config files."
"It needs proper HTTP/2 support."
"There are three main areas to improve: 1) Make remote management more modern by adding API. 2) Propose a general HA solution for HAProxy (no I'm using keepalived for this). 3) Thread option should be a bit more stable."
"The scalability could be improved."
"The KPI should be more focused on load balancing and the latency in application calling from the end system."
"The solution's GUI is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"I would suggest adding GUI-based configuration panels to NGINX Plus to simplify setup and management tasks."
"Make modules easier to enable or disable. The beauty and ugly side of the NGINX modules is you have to know how to compile the module. For beginners or non-very technical aspirant(s) going for NGINX, they have to learn how to compile the modules."
"I would like to see the Grafana integration in NGINX which is already present in HAProxy. Grafana integration will help the solution visualize all the data analytics on the dashboard which is currently not present."
"The drawback is that you must obtain a license for everything."
"NGINX Plus is moderately priced, but it could give better value for money."
HAProxy is ranked 3rd in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 41 reviews while NGINX Plus is ranked 5th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 28 reviews. HAProxy is rated 8.2, while NGINX Plus is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of HAProxy writes "Useful for for small and quick load-balancing tasks". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". HAProxy is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Kemp LoadMaster, Citrix NetScaler, Envoy and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), whereas NGINX Plus is most compared with IIS, Kemp LoadMaster, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Apache Web Server and Citrix NetScaler. See our HAProxy vs. NGINX Plus report.
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