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What do you like best about HAProxy?

The support I have experienced when contacting HAProxy about issues is exceptional. As a new user of HAProxy, their guides are very well written and cover 95% of cases I could think of coming across; however, when working with legacy code, everyone knows the absolute weirdness you will experience.

I have reached out to support multiple times about problems I could not resolve myself, and they have been at the top of their game. It is incredible to see a company that has support staff that knows their product as well as they do and that can push out fixes almost instantly.

Indeed they have the best support I have experienced in a long time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

Some of their documentation can get very complicated, I say this as a first-time user, but that is mostly on me, not knowing how everything interacts Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HAProxy solving and how is that benefiting you?

Load balancing applications that were written before load balancing was approached as a thought Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

HAProxy Overview

What is HAProxy?

HAProxy Technologies is the company behind HAProxy, the world’s fastest and most widely used software load balancer. Rapidly deploy HAProxy products to deliver websites and applications with the utmost performance, reliability and security at any scale and in any environment. Learn more at HAProxy.com

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HAProxy allows customers to take full advantage of HAProxy, a world renowned load balancer, and software application delivery controller, combined with enterprise-class features, services, and premium support.


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Jeff H.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Performance is outstanding."
HAProxy stands out for its exceptional performance in dynamic and high-load environments, making. The addition of the Fusion control plane further ...
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Deric W.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Successful POC with HAProxy Ingress Controller and Fusion. Fantastic team and support."
We were looking into alternatives to using the Nginx Ingress Controller for one of our products. Their team was super responsive and helpful throug...
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JH
Infrastructure Engineer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about HAProxy?

HAProxy stands out for its exceptional performance in dynamic and high-load environments, making. The addition of the Fusion control plane further enhances its capabilities, providing powerful tools for managing and securing large-scale deployments. Whether you need efficient load balancing, comprehensive observability, or advanced security, HAProxy with Fusion offers a robust solution.

Customer service was wonderul to work with. I had two initial questions that were solved easily from support over email. This made implementation quick and easy. Converting our NGINX over to HAProxy was a trivial and the Fusion Control Plan intergrates well and makes changes and versioning easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

For smaller deployments a single node with Fusion deployment would be ideal. We work with a lot of SMB businesses that the price is limiting our options for HAProxy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HAProxy solving and how is that benefiting you?

Better performance over our previous NGINX deployment. We experienced timeouts and general issues with NGINX that HAPRoxy resolved with minimal configuration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Deric W.
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Senior Engineering Manager
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about HAProxy?

We were looking into alternatives to using the Nginx Ingress Controller for one of our products. Their team was super responsive and helpful throughout the entire process. Their technical team was able to resolve all the concerns and questions we had. We ended up not going with the product as we are a lean startup trying to preserve our runway, but we have it in our backpocket if we ever switch. Highly recommend HAProxy to anyone needing their type of service. Their Fusion product has a lot of cool features that can be appealing if needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

No negatives we discovered in our POC. Maybe that we would have to run our own infrastructure. Some startups like to lean towards a fully managed service and be more hands-off. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HAProxy solving and how is that benefiting you?

Their Ingress Controller is something we wanted to POC in case we change our current solution one day. We primarily use it to be able to rewrite the request headers and do geolocation at the Ingress layer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

Thank you for this feedback.

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What do you like best about HAProxy?

HAProxy is straight-forward to configure. The addition of load balancers to the cluster is very fast and easy. Fusion control plane provides a UI for those that prefer it, and can be used to modify the load balancer on the fly. HAPEE also allows for gitops configuration management as a way for us to keep track of changes and maintain a source of truth. The HAProxy team was friendly and helpful, and worked with us to get started on our Proof of Concept quickly. Eric at HAProxy was very knowledgeable and has been very responsive with our questions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

Currently, we're not able to get tcp logging to write back to the fusion control plane. We can still review the logs on the local load balancer nodes, and all the tcp connections work perfectly, but it would be nice to have the logs show in the fusion control plane. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HAProxy solving and how is that benefiting you?

Lower Cost, GitOps config repository and updates through a github actions workflow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

It's good to hear that you've received support from the team during your PoC. Thank you for leaving a review!

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Law Enforcement
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about HAProxy?

We use HAProxy as a reverse proxy and are very satisfied with the results. One of the standout features is its extremely low resource consumption, making it a lean and efficient solution. Despite its lightweight nature, HAProxy offers a wide range of features and delivers excellent performance, even under high traffic loads.

The configuration options are versatile, and its stability is remarkable. We also appreciate the flexibility and easy integration into our existing systems. HAProxy fully meets our needs for reliability and efficiency and has proven to be an invaluable tool in our infrastructure.

For anyone looking for a powerful, resource-efficient solution for load balancing and proxying, HAProxy is highly recommended. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

The way we are using the product, didn't show any dislikes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HAProxy solving and how is that benefiting you?

We needed a reverse proxy that ensures uninterrupted access to a highly available environment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

Thanks for the review!

Tom W.
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Devops Team Leader
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about HAProxy?

After a decade of using HAProxy in various environments, I can confidently say it’s one of the most reliable and powerful load balancers available. Over the years, it’s consistently provided high performance, flexibility, and resilience, even as our infrastructure scaled and evolved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

We did have issues in autoscaling scenarios, but fixable with some scripting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HAProxy solving and how is that benefiting you?

Load balancing and acl Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

This is great to hear! We appreciate your review.

KA
Banking
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What do you like best about HAProxy?

The HAPEE version combines a productive load balancer with excellent built-in software WAF and mod_security., as well as protection from DOS attacks, protection from bots, a module for google recaptcha. It was the built-in security system that first attracted our attention to the version on ANDROID. With the help of the technical support team, we created an acceptable system configuration file and covered most of our security needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

The data transmitted using the send-metrics module to Prometheus by default is not so informative for system administration, which we intend to cover using Fusion in the near future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HAProxy solving and how is that benefiting you?

HAPEE allows us to monitor and prevent attacks on our remote service system on a daily basis. It also allows us to monitor and prevent attacks on our remote service system on a daily basis Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

Thank you for reviewing HAProxy Enterprise! And your feedback about the send-metrics module is greatly appreciated!

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AI
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What do you like best about HAProxy?

I’ve been using HAProxy since version ~1.7, and it remains the only load balancer I can confidently recommend. The flexibility it offers is remarkable - from simple conditions to using Lua scripts, to shape the traffic exactly how you need.

It is easy to integrate and combined with automation software (like Ansible) you can deploy a fully reliable environment, essentially creating a turnkey solution ready for clients.

Project is well maintained with long support periods and upgrades can be performed in-place without disrupting traffic flow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

Some of the tooling around HAProxy - like halog is not well documented. Only HAProxy 3+ support JSON logs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HAProxy solving and how is that benefiting you?

Load balancing the traffic to hundreds of machines with multiple different web services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

Thank you for reviewing HAProxy!

Cody D.
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Staff Software Architect
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about HAProxy?

We have used it as our main load balancer and inter point for our systems for years and love every feature! Easy to use, easy to debug, easy to deploy. Can't beat it! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

We haven't found anything yet, the product is solid. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HAProxy solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use it to deal with many thousands of agents checking in and handling API management around the same Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

Thank you for reviewing HAProxy!

MJ
Staff Engineer - Linux Platform
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about HAProxy?

Among other available software based load balancers, I find HaProxy a very solid software that fills our all load balancing needs. The implementation is very easy and documentation and customer support is excellent. It support API based backend health checks that gives extra comfort when you are running tier 0 services in the backends. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

We do not have any dislike so far while we have been using this product for many years. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HAProxy solving and how is that benefiting you?

Its helping us to have our tier 0 service highly available and effectively load balanced. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

Thank you for reviewing HAProxy!

Obulesu D.
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Senior Site Reliability Engineer
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What do you like best about HAProxy?

Traffic scaling the best in the industry Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

Need to complete with envoy now it is leasing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HAProxy solving and how is that benefiting you?

Handling customer requests Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

Thank you for leaving a review.