We performed a comparison between Citrix NetScaler and HAProxy 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."I find all of it to be valuable, because of the flexibility that is built into this product."
"Load Balancing and SSL offloading are key features."
"It is a very stable solution."
"It is a stable solution. It crashed only once, four years ago...There is a return on investment using the solution."
"The MAS integration for HDX Insight has provided teams with significant visibility into network performance of the user's connection."
"The solution improves security performance."
"The web application firewalling component is a powerful feature."
"Scalability is great. One of the best features of NetScaler is that it can scale out."
"Reliability. HAProxy is the most reliable product I have ever used."
"I am also able to make configuration changes during the day, in production, with no worries of problems and/or downtime occurring."
"It is stable. Period. Will not fail unless you do something wrong."
"The most important features would be the load-balancing of HTTP and TCP requests, according to multiple LB-algorithms (busyness, weighted-busyness, round robin, traffic, etc). Another important feature that we cannot live without is the username/passwd authentication for legacy systems that had none."
"It reduced the load on our main load balancers."
"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."
"The feature that I have found the most valuable is that it works for my use case of application load balancing. I'm using it for PeerSense, and it's easy enough for PeerSense."
"The solution is user-friendly and efficient."
"Quality assurance could improve by ironing out security vulnerabilities before releasing upgrades."
"Currently, it is not easy to use the configuration capabilities of the product."
"Does not include security. A web application firewall would be a nice addition."
"Technical support sometimes takes a little longer because of the multilevel ticket priority."
"The security is okay, but the monitoring and reporting need improvement."
"We have issues with the certificates. All authorization processes need certificates, however, every three months we needed to change certificates. This process iss complicated for us because Citrix does not have a not user-friendly interface and does not off user-friendly services. This needs a lot of improvement."
"Reducing the overhead required for AppFlow data collection, specifically for HDX Insight, would be a huge improvement."
"The licensing model and technical support of the solution could be improved."
"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."
"Documentation could be improved."
"The product does not have any new technologies."
"The GUI should be more responsive and show the detailed output of logs."
"The visibility could be improved."
"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)."
"I would like to see better search handling, and a user interface, with a complete functional graphical unit"
"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."
Citrix NetScaler is ranked 2nd in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 85 reviews while HAProxy is ranked 3rd in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 41 reviews. Citrix NetScaler is rated 8.4, while HAProxy is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Citrix NetScaler writes "Optimizing application delivery and ensuring robust network performance with its excellent stability and comprehensive load-balancing capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HAProxy writes "Useful for for small and quick load-balancing tasks". Citrix NetScaler is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Fortinet FortiADC, Loadbalancer.org and A10 Networks Thunder ADC, whereas HAProxy is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus, Kemp LoadMaster, Envoy and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM). See our Citrix NetScaler vs. HAProxy report.
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