We performed a comparison between HAProxy and NGINX Plus 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."The ease of use of the configuration, and great documentation, are the most valuable features for us."
"Advanced traffic rules, including stick tables and ACLs, which allow me to shape traffic while it's load balanced."
"Reliability. HAProxy is the most reliable product I have ever used."
"It has allowed us to evenly distribute the load across a number of servers, and check their health and automatically react to errors."
"We use it as a load balancer for our application servers."
"Having the right load balancing solution – which is what HAProxy is – and protection in place gives organizations peace of mind."
"Software defined load balancing allows us to dynamically adjust and codify routing decisions. This speeds up development."
"It is a crucial tool in ensuring smooth service provision without any interruptions."
"This solution has everything."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is simple to configure."
"When I worked in a security research center, we tested NGINX to support DoS and DDoS attacks, and its results were great."
"Valuable features include authentication, caching, reverse proxy routing, and load balancing."
"Nginx is simple to configure, very stable in a highly utilized environment and very modular, allowing DevOps to create it's own modules for interactive use with Nginx."
"The robust software architecture allows for it to be scalable and very stable."
"NGINX Plus' most valuable feature is the ingress controller."
"The most valuable features are the gateway and the ability to publish to sites."
"Maybe HAProxy could be more modular."
"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 logging functionality could use improvement, as it is a little cryptic."
"It needs proper HTTP/2 support."
"The GUI should be more responsive and show the detailed output of logs."
"The visibility could be improved."
"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."
"HAProxy could do with some good combination integrations."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model."
"The solution's GUI is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"The drawback is that you must obtain a license for everything."
"Our most challenging part was to run an older PHP website reverse-proxied through NGINX. That was not fun."
"The user interface could be improved."
"The scalability could be improved."
"The KPI should be more focused on load balancing and the latency in application calling from the end system."
"If NGINX brings some features for health check in the open source version, it would be better. "
HAProxy is ranked 3rd in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 41 reviews while NGINX Plus is ranked 5th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 28 reviews. HAProxy is rated 8.2, while NGINX Plus 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 NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". HAProxy is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Kemp LoadMaster, Citrix NetScaler, Envoy and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), whereas NGINX Plus is most compared with IIS, Kemp LoadMaster, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Apache Web Server and Citrix NetScaler. See our HAProxy vs. NGINX Plus report.
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