We performed a comparison between HAProxy and Linode based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."Performance configuration options with threads, processes, and core stickiness are very valuable."
"HAProxy Enterprise Edition has been rock solid. We have essentially had no downtime caused by our load balancers in the last 10 months, because they’ve worked so well. Previously, our load balancers caused us multiple hours per year in downtime."
"Software defined load balancing allows us to dynamically adjust and codify routing decisions. This speeds up development."
"The solution is effective in managing our traffic."
"Tech support is super-quick to respond, and always on target with answers specific to the current issue."
"Having the right load balancing solution – which is what HAProxy is – and protection in place gives organizations peace of mind."
"The solution is user-friendly and efficient."
"We don't have a problem with the user interface. it's good."
"Generally speaking, I have not found any faults using Linode. For what we wanted, they provided a complete solution."
"The most valuable features are the simple scalability and ease of starting a new virtual machine."
"They have a very nice web interface to allow you to manage and reorganize your server."
"The ability to fire up a virtual machine, use it, and then kill it, is quite a valuable feature for me."
"The most valuable feature is the static IP address, which has been very helpful for being able to log into the same address over the course of more than a decade."
"We can scale up and down as we require."
"Service availability is the most valuable feature. It gives every user 100 percent uptime."
"When I started using Linode, I found its functionality easy to navigate, user-friendly and responsive to my needs. It provides clear reminders about services I'm not using, like DNS zones, which I appreciate."
"The web stats UI, which provides the status of the health and numbers, could greatly benefit from having a RESTful interface to control the load-balanced nodes. Although there is a hack around the UI (by issuing a POST request to HAProxy with parameters), a RESTful interface would greatly improve the automation process (through Chef and Ansible)."
"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."
"Dynamic update API. More things should be possible to be configured during runtime."
"If nbproc = 2, you will have two processes of HAProxy running. However, the stats of HAProxy will not be aggregated, meaning you don't really know the collective status in a single point of view."
"I would like to see better search handling, and a user interface, with a complete functional graphical unit"
"Pricing, monitoring, and reports can be improved."
"The product does not have any new technologies."
"The logging functionality could use improvement, as it is a little cryptic."
"I've had some difficulties with some of their IP addresses being banned by certain mail servers."
"Everything is up-to-date for a small business. But for big business, they need to improve certain things. For example, there should be better security."
"I would like to see more seamless integration with backup, although it's pretty easy to do."
"It would be nice if they had more data centers in Latin America."
"Before they changed the dashboard, I found some of the more granular options easier to find."
"They could have more international servers. There are certain places throughout Europe and Eastern Europe which are very open to doing a lot of technology business, such as Romania. Romania is very open to technology. At other service providers, I have stuff in Romania. I think there are some Eastern European locations that would be more open to it. So, if they could have more European points of presence, that would be more helpful."
"I'm not sure what could be improved at Linode since they're likely already making enhancements, especially with the Akamai acquisition and, I don't have any specific suggestions as I haven't encountered any major issues. I might consider using API for managing DNS records, but overall, I'm satisfied with Linode."
"They don't have role-based access control, which is problematic for us."
HAProxy is ranked 3rd in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 41 reviews while Linode is ranked 6th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 27 reviews. HAProxy is rated 8.2, while Linode 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 Linode writes "Straightforward to set up, helpful support, and the Object Storage is useful for system backups". HAProxy is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus, Kemp LoadMaster, Citrix NetScaler and Envoy, whereas Linode is most compared with Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Cloudflare and Google Kubernetes Engine.
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