# What are the highest-rated load balancing solutions for companies requiring high availability and automatic failover?

<p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">I'm researching which load balancing solutions are highest-rated for high availability and automatic failover, and wanted reviews behind it. In the<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/categories/load-balancing"> </a><a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/categories/load-balancing">load balancing</a> category, three come up most: HAProxy, AWS Elastic Load Balancing, and Progress Kemp LoadMaster. The wider list:</p><ol>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/haproxy/reviews"><strong>HAProxy</strong></a>: reviewers say it automatically pulls unhealthy servers from the pool, eliminating single points of failure.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/aws-elastic-load-balancing/reviews"><strong>AWS Elastic Load Balancing</strong></a>: routes only to healthy targets across zones and redirects on failure without user impact.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/progress-kemp-loadmaster/reviews"><strong>Progress Kemp LoadMaster</strong></a>: high-availability balancing reviewers call virtually maintenance-free.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/f5-nginx/reviews"><strong>F5 NGINX</strong></a>: high availability during peak traffic with health-based routing.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-load-balancing/reviews"><strong>Google Cloud Load Balancing</strong></a>: continuously checks server health so only healthy servers get traffic.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/azure-application-gateway/reviews"><strong>Azure Application Gateway</strong></a>: autoscaling and zone-redundant with backend health checks.</li>
</ol><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">For HA and failover, which platform actually held up when a backend went down? And did failover happen fast enough that users never noticed?</p>

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- Posted at: 16 days ago
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## Comments
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Yeah for HA and automatic failover, a few highly-rated options stand out depending on where you run. HAProxy is a favorite, it&#39;s a proven, high-performance load balancer built around health checks and failover, and it rates very well with engineers. F5 NGINX is the other strong software option, widely used for load balancing and HA in front of web apps. If you want it delivered globally as a service, Cloudflare&#39;s platform includes load balancing with health checks and automatic failover across regions, and Azure Application Gateway is the native choice if you&#39;re on Azure. To be real, the right pick depends on self-managed versus cloud-native, HAProxy and NGINX give you control, the cloud services give you less to operate. Are you running your own infrastructure, or looking for a managed, global failover setup?

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