We performed a comparison between Barracuda Web Application Firewall and HAProxy based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), F5, Microsoft and others in Web Application Firewall (WAF)."The stability of the product is good. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The solution ensures layer seven is secure from attacks."
"We only need one subscription to be protected against both active DDoS and offline DDoS attacks."
"The installation is straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the simplicity of configuration."
"The solution offers multiple security features. There are machine learning features and great URL encryption. It also offers multi-protocol support against DDoS attacks."
"It is stable and the performance is good."
"The most valuable feature is the automatic content filtering."
"The VRRP redundancy is also a mission-critical feature that works seamlessly. I can bring down a server live with minimal downtime because of this."
"HAProxy's TCP load balancer is excellent and super stable."
"The support for all major Linux distros makes running and testing a breeze."
"Software defined load balancing allows us to dynamically adjust and codify routing decisions. This speeds up development."
"It has allowed us to evenly distribute the load across a number of servers, and check their health and automatically react to errors."
"It solves a problem for me where I can build files, not based on the health of the check, but rather the speed of the check."
"Advanced traffic rules, including stick tables and ACLs, which allow me to shape traffic while it's load balanced."
"We did not need technical support because the documentation is good."
"The documentation is lacking. It's not like what you'd get if you were using Juniper or Cisco. They need to expand on it and make it more useful."
"The GUI needs to be improved because it sometimes hangs and needs to be restarted."
"I think the main area for improvement in this product is learning it, as can be seen when comparing it to the F5 web application firewall. F5 has a very powerful learning phase when you start using your web application firewall against your site. Barracuda has something like this, but not with the same functionality from my point of view."
"Sometimes when we put it in action, we have some blogs that appear as false positives. I think that it's improving. Barracuda should minimize false positives."
"I have issues with the load balancing of the solution which is slow. The connection pooling in Barracuda also doesn't work. There is an issue when someone needs access to a site quickly. The issue is with HTTPS services. I am not sure if they have changed all these in the solution’s latest version."
"I would like to see better controlling of the traffic."
"They should improve their features, so they easily compare to the competition."
"The platform's pricing needs improvement."
"I would like to see better search handling, and a user interface, with a complete functional graphical unit"
"The visibility could be improved."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model. It could be cheaper."
"We need to handle new connections by dropping, or queuing them while the HAProxy restarts, and because HAProxy does not handle split config files."
"I would like to evaluate load-balancing algorithms other than round robin and SSL offloading. Also, it would be helpful if I could logically divide the HAProxy load-balancing into multiple entities so that I would install one HA Proxy LB application which could be used for different Web servers for different applications. I am not sure if these features are available."
"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."
"We would like to see dynamic ACL and port update support. Our infrastructure relies on randomly allocated ports and this feature would allow us to update without restarting the process."
"There is no standardized document available. So, any individual has to work from scratch to work it out. If some standard deployment details are available, it would be helpful for people while deploying it. There should be more documentation on the standard deployment."
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Barracuda Web Application Firewall is ranked 15th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 38 reviews while HAProxy is ranked 3rd in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 41 reviews. Barracuda Web Application Firewall is rated 8.2, while HAProxy is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Barracuda Web Application Firewall writes "Provides strong issue discovery capabilities; enhance the security parameters of web applications and suitable for medium to large enterprises". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HAProxy writes "Useful for for small and quick load-balancing tasks". Barracuda Web Application Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, F5 Advanced WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Kemp LoadMaster and Radware Alteon, whereas HAProxy is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus, Kemp LoadMaster, Citrix NetScaler and Avi Networks Software Load Balancer.
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