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)."Advanced traffic rules, including stick tables and ACLs, which allow me to shape traffic while it's load balanced."
"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."
"It reduced the load on our main load balancers."
"Scalable and inexpensive."
"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 features I find valuable in this solution are session control which automatically disconnects users that forget to log off, and the ability to write rules to either allow or block certain file requests."
"It improves our scalability and responsiveness services to meet our demanding customer requirements."
"HAProxy's TCP load balancer is excellent and super stable."
"This product is a reliable defense from malicious attacks on a network environment."
"Its unique interface for managing security performance and ease of use are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The complete solution is valuable for everything it delivers and the protection it offers."
"An improvement has been to our website: It increases the speed of our response, the capacity of the site, and optimizes the bandwidth."
"It fits our requirements, as well as our budget."
"Imperva DDoS is fairly stable, and its availability is quite high."
"DDoS protection and WAF are the most valuable features. It is easy to deploy a service. It is easy and quick to deploy to a new website."
"Technical support provides good, quick responses."
"There is room for improvement in HAProxy's dynamic configuration."
"HAProxy is very weak in the logging and monitoring part and requires improvement."
"Documentation could be improved."
"HAProxy could do with some good combination integrations."
"I would like to see better search handling, and a user interface, with a complete functional graphical unit"
"The solution can be improved by controlling TCP behavior better and mandating to clients what the expected outcome must be in order to avoid receiving contestant timeout logs."
"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)."
"HAProxy could improve by making the dashboards easier to use, and better reports and administration tickets."
"The product could use a broader scope in the area of policies."
"I would like to have support for SSL management and secure DNS."
"I miss being able to integrate the dashboard with other BI tools we are using. We have to export and import data to be able to present it, and doing so is a lot of work."
"We had an issue when securing the web applications for DDoS protection."
"It would be beneficial to include vulnerability management in the solution, similar to what they have for their on-premise solution."
"I would like to see automated reporting to improve visibility."
"It would be better if we were able to manage and apply changes to multiple websites/web applications, and search WAF logs for multiple websites, via the Incapsula dashboard."
"I am not sure if this application has a policy where you can create your custom policy and run it as our firewall. We should have some ability to also create some custom policy, then run it as a firewall."
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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