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Users consistently praise HAProxy for its high performance and reliability, making it an essential tool for load balancing and traffic management. Many appreciate its flexibility in handling various workloads, which enhances operational efficiency. However, some users note that the configuration can be complex, particularly for advanced setups.

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Verified User in Government Administration
AG
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"HAProxy load balancing"
What do you like best about HAProxy?

The granularity of control and the extra features that HAProxy has added to their HAProxy ALOHA offering are fantastic and really augment the base use-case of the HAProxy software as a whole.

There are plenty of information/wizards for initial implementation that really provide a great user experience.

HAProxy support is incredibly quick to respond and overall very helpful and knowledgeable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

The web UI could use a bit of an overhaul in terms of features implemented.

A lot of the more granular controls are difficult to implement in the non-text-based part of the web UI. Along with that, the web UI itself is a bit clunky but still very usable and provides a lot of very good information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

Thank you for leaving a review. HAProxy ALOHA will receive improvements for usability, and we thank you for providing your insights.

Christian S.
CS
CEO
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Very good and useful product."
What do you like best about HAProxy?

Easy fast configuration, fast working no further work, just update Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

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Steven B.
SB
Cloud Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Incredible product"
What do you like best about HAProxy?

I really like the performance and the ease of use. The community help is also incredible. Working with HAProxy Technologies is always fast and streamlined. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

The biggest challenge that we have is finding the right directives to use in our configuration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

The number of available directives can be a challenge! It's good to hear that you've found HAProxy to have good performance and easy to use.

Verified User in Higher Education
AH
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Loving HAProxy!"
What do you like best about HAProxy?

HAProxy's sales and support folks are top-of-the-line! They have enabled us to make our project timeline and the product delivers what was offered. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

Some of our interaction with Fusion has hit a few performance bugs. However, we have a very complex environment with a very large configuration file and HAProxy has been very responsive in resolving performance issues for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

Thank you for writing this detailed review of HAProxy and HAProxy Fusion!

Verified User in Computer Networking
AC
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Simple and great Software Loadbalancer"
What do you like best about HAProxy?

We use HAProxy for different use cases, from simple reverse proxy to loads balancing various applications.

It's simple and versatile configuration makes it easy to archive high availability to our and customers services.

The enterprise version also offers a management UI where clusters can be deployed using a few click.

Also the support is very helpful when it comes to debug different issues and offers helpful solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

There are no downsides I know of at the moment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

It's good to hear that you've found HAProxy simple and versatile. Thank you for sharing this review!

Verified User in Consulting
AC
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Haproxy is great"
What do you like best about HAProxy?

Haproxy is great. Really stable all the time. The procedure to get it up and running is easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

None so far. I like haproxy a lot....... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Neel B.
NB
Quant Systems Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Performant and easy to use"
What do you like best about HAProxy?

Simplicity of docs. I was able to setup a test proxy within an hour! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

Not much here. It would be great if there was a support for dynamic backends and frontends. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

Thanks for your suggestion about dynamic backends and frontends. I'll relay this request!

BB
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Quick migration fron f5 device to haproxy. With minimum issues"
What do you like best about HAProxy?

Ease of use, lite weight software app.

Patch maintenance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

Stats page to check the health, if we have several backend this becomes cumbersom.

Does not have a version control for config files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

It's good to hear that you've found HAProxy easy to use! For dashboards and versioning of config files, HAProxy Fusion Control Plane has these features.

Akom P.
AP
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Great piece of software , works great out of the box"
What do you like best about HAProxy?

We've been using HAProxy extensively in both our production and staging environments, and it continues to exceed expectations as a high-performance, open-source load balancer and reverse proxy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

Some nice feature are still behind paywall Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

Thanks for reviewing HAProxy! By putting some features into our enterprise products, we're able to hire top engineers and advance the open-source product.

changal r.
CR
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Haproxy is a great product"
What do you like best about HAProxy?

I like HAProxy best for its high performance, reliability, and powerful load balancing capabilities across diverse traffic patterns. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

HAProxy can have a steep learning curve for beginners, especially when dealing with advanced configuration options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. What could we do to help beginners better? Are there topics we could cover better in the docs?

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