The performance and manageability. You can use conventional configuration files and you can manage with an API. Community edition easily serves internal needs and is easy to install and configure. When considering production we need a cost efficient product that came with support. HAProxy Enterprise Edition (HAPEE) fits that bill. Our expensive hardware Load Balancers could do the job but at astronomical prices. HAPEE comes with a lot of modules out of the box for some advanced use cases. Creating a highly available pair of LBs or integrating in SAML to your auth flow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I don't have much to dislike. For some the loss of a GUI will be upsetting but that's not a problem on my team. As of today there are no historical stats kept by the software. You can see realtime stats all day but it's on the user to pipe them into software to keep historical data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
We really appreciate your detailed review. We have since released our Fusion Control Plane, which includes both historical stats and a GUI. Feel free to check it out! https://www.haproxy.com/products/haproxy-fusion-control-plane






