We performed a comparison between HAProxy and Radware Alteon 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."Tech support is super-quick to respond, and always on target with answers specific to the current issue."
"It improves our scalability and responsiveness services to meet our demanding customer requirements."
"It reduced the load on our main load balancers."
"The solution is user-friendly and efficient."
"The most valuable thing for me is TCP/IP Layer 4 stuff you can do with HAProxy. You can go down to the protocol level and make decisions on something."
"Scalable and inexpensive."
"Load balancing is valuable, and we are also using the WAF feature."
"We were able to use HAProxy for round robin with our databases, or for a centralized TCP connection in one host."
"The link load balancing is a great feature."
"The most valuable feature is the load-balancing reverse proxy."
"I like the concept of self-service, that I can do everything on my own."
"The health status information, with its highly detailed reporting, has saved us time on troubleshooting. We have the precise information needed that helps us find different types of situations."
"It saves us a lot of work in terms of management since it has tasks already defined automatically. That enables us to better administer our services. It is very dynamic and easy to administer."
"The command line interface is simple and very user-friendly."
"The best features are the security through the web application firewall, the functionality that the solution offers, being a load balancer with the security functionality on top of it, and the ease of administration."
"I am finding SSL-TLS acceleration the most valuable function, with certificate management. It is easy to generate certificates and assign them to services"
"The product does not have any new technologies."
"Dynamic update API. More things should be possible to be configured during runtime."
"It needs proper HTTP/2 support."
"HAProxy is very weak in the logging and monitoring part and requires improvement."
"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."
"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."
"The logging functionality could use improvement, as it is a little cryptic."
"There are three main areas to improve: 1) Make remote management more modern by adding API. 2) Propose a general HA solution for HAProxy (no I'm using keepalived for this). 3) Thread option should be a bit more stable."
"Support is very important because if we get good support, we'll be able to sell and supply more numbers."
"I would like this solution to have an integration tool that will convert configuration from other software, into readable values for this product during implementation."
"We’d like the solution to include more security features in the standard license."
"The community portal does not have a place to find scripts."
"Recently our team was talking about the things you can customize in Alteon and the level of programming that doing so demands. I would like to see more information on how to customize the programming and troubleshoot."
"We don't integrate anything with it because most things don't integrate with Radware. If it were F5, we could integrate it. We can integrate F5 with practically anything that integrates with a load balancer, but that's not the case with Alteon."
"Their support can be better. The Radware management is very proactive. We can connect to anybody in Radware Management in India. We can even connect with the MD of Radware India. However, their lower level staff should be more proactive towards the customers."
"Radware Alteon could improve the troubleshooting from the command line interface, they could do a better job making it easier."
HAProxy is ranked 3rd in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 41 reviews while Radware Alteon is ranked 7th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 33 reviews. HAProxy is rated 8.2, while Radware Alteon is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of HAProxy writes "Useful for for small and quick load-balancing tasks". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Radware Alteon writes "It's a good fit for a small team because the maintenance is easier and you don't need to know how to code". HAProxy is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus, Kemp LoadMaster, Citrix NetScaler and Barracuda Web Application Firewall, whereas Radware Alteon is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Citrix NetScaler, A10 Networks Thunder ADC, F5 Advanced WAF and Fortinet FortiWeb. See our HAProxy vs. Radware Alteon report.
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