HAProxy Reviews & Product Details

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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Vinod P.

Project Lead

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/4/2021

"The best open source proxy for web hosting"

4.5/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

You can configure port 80 and 443 without having so much configuration.

Good for newbies to configure it with ease.

Can load balance more than 2 servers without having much confusion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

Can't define percentage of load for each server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Jakub Suchy of HAProxy

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Thank you for your review! You can configure percentage load for each server using the "weight" keyword on the server line. It accepts a value from 0 - 100.

Pradeep N.

Manager, Cloud SAAS

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/5/2021

"Great Tool to Monitor and Manage Load Balance"

5/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

Great Tool to Monitor the Traffic and Manage Load Balance request better than Amazon ELB Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

UI interface should be more user friendly, and the Installation document should be improved Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Jakub Suchy of HAProxy

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Thank you and we are glad HAProxy is working well for you. Please check out our HAProxy Fusion Control Plane as a great UI to HAProxy.

Rahul A.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/5/2021

"DevOps Engineer"

5/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

It helps to use in cost-cutting and performance is very good, weighted policy works and easy of use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

nothing is there as it updates everything Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Jakub Suchy of HAProxy

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Thank you for your review!

Zeenat Hussain B.

Java Staff Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/30/2021

"Very flexible,efficient and secure load balancing tool"

5/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

I like its Event Driven Architecture for Improved Performance,Allows Zero-Downtime Maintenance,Several Load Balancing Algorithms/Configurations and SSL encryption. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

I always found merits there is nothing to dislike such effective tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Jakub Suchy of HAProxy

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Glad to hear HAProxy is working out for you!

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/6/2021

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"Haproxy is a great tool for proxy and load balancer activities"

5/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

Haproxy is a great tool for proxy and load balancer activities and scales well with heavy work loads. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

Single point of failure. Scaling requires through testing and benchmarking. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Jakub Suchy of HAProxy

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Thank you for your review! We always recommend deploying HAProxy in pairs for High Availability, so it doesn't become single point of failure.

Luís V.

Telecommunications Specialist

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/5/2021

"It's an excellent software load balancer. It is very configurable, but a bit hard to."

4/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

The amount of options you can configure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

It's a bit hard to configure. But nothing you can't do we a bit a discover. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Jakub Suchy of HAProxy

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Thank you so much for your review. Please check out our HAProxy Fusion Control Plane - it makes configuration much easier!

Bittu T.

DevOps Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/3/2021

"awesome load balancer tool"

5/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

way to use and its different types of configurations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

too much configs also hard to learn and implement Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Jakub Suchy of HAProxy

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Thank you so much for your review! Check out some of our config tutorials, you might find them helpful for learning configuration: https://www.haproxy.com/documentation/haproxy-configuration-tutorials/

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/13/2021

"HAproxy As balancer"

4.5/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

HAproxy helps with the application balacing to a great extend Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

When it comes to database load-balacing it lacks the inbuilt health checks mechanism to make a efficient routing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Jakub Suchy of HAProxy

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Thank you for your review! Depending on the database, we offer specific health checks, such as mysql-check, postgresql-check and redis-check. You can also run agent-checks that return data directly from the target server.

Verified User in Internet

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/24/2021

"Works out of the box"

4.5/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

Being lighweight, low footprint load balance which can be used to balance a web app, APIs, database connections and more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

Configuration examples can be added apart for it cant think of any right now Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Jakub Suchy of HAProxy

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Thank you for your review! Check out the configuration examples we have here: https://www.haproxy.com/documentation/haproxy-configuration-tutorials/