We performed a comparison between HAProxy and Imperva DDoS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."We use it as a load balancer for our application servers."
"We were able to use HAProxy for round robin with our databases, or for a centralized TCP connection in one host."
"It has allowed us to evenly distribute the load across a number of servers, and check their health and automatically react to errors."
"The solution is effective in managing our traffic."
"I am also able to make configuration changes during the day, in production, with no worries of problems and/or downtime occurring."
"Scalable and inexpensive."
"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."
"It reduced the load on our main load balancers."
"Gives us the ability to trace each connection, and to have logs to be able to differentiate between a positive and a false-positive intruder action."
"The setup of Imperva DDoS was easy."
"Technical support was very helpful."
"It is a stable solution."
"The solution has a very good interface."
"On the real time, you can see live traffic, which is flowing into our website."
"On the activity log, I can see the exact details, the visit, and the threat."
"Scalability is pretty easy on the base platform. You just add another, and you're ready to go."
"The reconfigurability in terms of the tooling could be improved and maybe an editor plugin can be added."
"The product does not have any new technologies."
"Improving the documentation with multiple examples and scenarios would be beneficial. Most users encounter similar situations, so having a variety of scenarios readily available on the tool's website would be helpful. For instance, if I were part of the HAProxy team, I'd create a webpage with different scenarios and provide files for each scenario. This way, users wouldn't have to start from scratch every time."
"The visibility could be improved."
"It needs proper HTTP/2 support."
"The only area that I can see needing improvement is the management interface, since it is pretty much all through the CLI or configuration. A GUI/web interface could be helpful for users who are not as experienced in the Linux shell. However, HAProxy does have another product that we evaluated called ALOHA, which has a web front-end, but we found it did not meet our needs."
"We've changed solutions as it doesn't fit with our current needs."
"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."
"Its price could be improved. It is quite expensive. It will be good if we could export the configuration. Currently, to control the configuration, we need to go to each website, which is not very convenient."
"A limited tool if you're looking to customize."
"Imperva now offers add-ons to add functionality, but I would like to see these included in the product, even if it would cost more."
"The log analytics interface within Incapsula isn't really good. For example, if you have to get all logs from there, it's a very cumbersome process."
"Imperva always needs to adjust to new versions of cyber attacks, it needs to be faster, improve the resiliency of the software of the solution."
"The product could use a broader scope in the area of policies."
"It needs to be improved every time there are new attacks."
"The solution should integrate with something that looks at continuous security management."
HAProxy is ranked 3rd in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 41 reviews while Imperva DDoS is ranked 7th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 74 reviews. HAProxy is rated 8.2, while Imperva DDoS 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 Imperva DDoS writes "I like the content monitoring feature which I haven't seen in other WAF solutions". HAProxy is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus, Kemp LoadMaster and Citrix NetScaler, whereas Imperva DDoS is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, Arbor DDoS, Radware DefensePro and F5 Shape Security.
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