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HAProxy is an open-source software load balancer and reverse proxy for TCP, QUIC, and HTTP-based applications. It provides high availability, load balancing, and best-in-class SSL processing. HAProxy One is an application delivery and security platform that combines the HAProxy core with enterprise-grade security layers, management and orchestration, cloud-native integration, and more. Platform components: HAProxy Enterprise: a flexible data plane layer for TCP, UDP, QUIC, and HTTP-based applications that provides high-performance load balancing, high availability, an API/AI gateway, container networking, SSL processing, DDoS protection, bot detection and mitigation, global rate limiting, and a web application firewall (WAF). HAProxy Fusion: a scalable control plane that provides full-lifecycle management, observability, and automation of multi-cluster, multi-cloud, and multi-team HAProxy Enterprise deployments, with infrastructure integration for AWS, Kubernetes, Consul, and Prometheus. HAProxy Edge: a globally distributed application delivery network that provides fully managed application delivery and security services, a secure partition between external traffic and origin networks, and threat intelligence enhanced by machine learning that powers the security layers in HAProxy Fusion and HAProxy Enterprise. Learn more at HAProxy.com

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Brandon M.

Chief Technology Officer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/10/2023

"Great Product and Excellent Support"

5/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

We've used some flavor of HAProxy for nearly 10 years now. They have added features and have gotten more powerful during that time. Whenever we have issues or questions though, their support has been fantastic and some of the best support we have across our product stack. Can't recommend them enough. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

Some of the more complex configurations are still CLI and/or manually editing configs. I'd like to see more added to the GUI so people newer to the product can pick it up quicker. This is really just a nitpick though. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

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It's great to hear from a long-time HAProxy user, and that your experience has been positive. Did you know that HAProxy Fusion provides a GUI for managing HAProxy Enterprise instances?

Verified User in Research

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/21/2024

"Robust and reliable"

4/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

It always works reliably. It's easy to achieve the result you want Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

The documentation is very useful for proficient users but beginners might be overwhelmed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

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It's great to hear that you've found HAProxy to be reliable and that it gives you the results you want. Regarding the documentation, we would like to make it better. What would help it to be less overwhelming? Have you browsed our tutorials at https://www.haproxy.com/documentation/haproxy-configuration-tutorials/ ?

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/20/2024

"Using HaProxy for many years"

4.5/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

It's ease of use, and the recent support for Ingress Controller Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

The recent change to the Ingress Controller took some time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Jakub Suchy of HAProxy

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Thank you for your review!

Andy W.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/21/2020

"Solid product, backed by a solid development team, reinforced by enterprise-grade support"

5/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

Developers - The developers who have created and maintain the HAProxy core software, are a highly knowledgeable and dedicated group of people. They're also very responsive when it comes to communicating with users on public mailing lists, etc. All in all, it's a very passionate group of people.

Community - HAProxy also has a very large community following, and there's always someone available (mailing list, slack, IRC, StackExchange, etc) that is able to help with any general or specific issue or question you might have.

Enterprise - And, as if the development teams and large helpful community weren't enough, the HAPEE (HAProxy Enterprise Edition) offering includes a pile of additional modules that take an already-amazing product, and crank it to 11. Furthermore, it's backed by a phenomenal team of people. Everyone that I've worked with, from Sales and Marketing to Engineering and Support, have been extremely personable, very quick to respond, and always willing to bend over backwards to help us as customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

To be completely honest, I've got nothing to say here. Any issues I've ever had in the past were quickly taken care of. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering HAProxy:

The documentation may be daunting at first, but cruise through the sections that are most closely related to the problems you're trying to solve. Check out the community IRC/Slack and ask any questions as you're getting started. If you're looking for examples of how others have implemented something similar to what you're trying to do, Google it -- there are plenty of resources available.

HAPEE is very reasonably priced. Don't let the large price tag of other players in this space prevent you from reaching out to the Haproxy Enterprises team. They'll be more than willing to work with you, figure out your needs, and connect you with the correct resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We're using HAProxy as a load balancer for a wide variety of traffic, both internal and customer facing. It does so much more for us than just "balancing the load," though. With the highly-customizable logging, we're able to be very in-tune with all of the traffic that goes through it. With the rich request manipulation functionality, we're able to easily solve many problems that would be much more difficult to tackle at other layers of our stack. With ACLs and stick tables, we are able to police traffic in ways that would otherwise be extremely convoluted and disjointed.

And the best part is, even though we're arguably power users, we've barely scratched the surface of the myriad possibilities that HAProxy brings to the table. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Jakub Suchy of HAProxy

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Thank you so much for your detailed review!

Verified User in Consulting

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/20/2024

"Gap Roxy is a great product for both onprem and cloud installations"

4.5/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

Flexibility of proxy and good community as well as documentation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

Sometimes rules becomes too complex and big. It would be nice to get some abstraction Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Jakub Suchy of HAProxy

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Thank you for your review! Please check out our Fusion Control Plane that abstracts a lot of the complexity of managing HAProxy.

Verified User in Computer & Network Security

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/8/2022

"Reliable and Robust Load Balancing ct"

5/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

The fully fledged LB experience. Handles millions of request per second like a charm. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

Actually nothing. Everything is ok for me Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

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We appreciate you leaving your feedback about HAProxy!

Gil H.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/29/2023

"A really satisfied customer"

5/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

Reliability. We use HAProxy for years, and haven't found any issues in the infra. That tells a lot Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

Basically nothing. The product is easy to use and does exactly what we need Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Jakub Suchy of HAProxy

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Hi, really appreciate your review! Thank you!

Donald M.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/15/2023

"Exceptional support"

5/5

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.

Verified User in Financial Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/20/2024

"Fast"

5/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

The way I can balance my apps in a proactive way Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

Not kube native, so I can't apply it at 100% of my clusters Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Jakub Suchy of HAProxy

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Thank you! HAProxy offers both an Ingress Controller for Kubernetes (https://www.haproxy.com/documentation/kubernetes-ingress/) and a Service Discovery functionality in our Fusion Control Plane (https://www.haproxy.com/products/haproxy-fusion-control-plane) that allows you to discover services running in K8S.