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HAProxy Overview

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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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2013
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We are the company behind HAProxy, the world’s fastest and most widely used software load balancer. Organizations rapidly deploy HAProxy products to deliver websites and applications with the utmost performance, observability, and security at any scale and in any environment.

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Alex K.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Amazing load balancer"
The configuration is easy to create even some very complex load balancing rules. We use it to successfully route all of our web traffic to various...
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"Exceptional Support and Seamless Transition from our old solution to HAProxy Enterprise"
Top notich support! Flexible and customizable load balancing features. Reliable and high-performing platform. Comprehensive documentation. Exce...
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Eduardo D.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
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"Flexible and trustworthy"
I've known about HAProxy for years and always heard good things about it. We've been users of the CE version for years now and it is software that ...
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Mat G.
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What do you like best about HAProxy?

It's very simple to stand up a tls front end for legacy apps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

The config is still cryptic for new people. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We Osoftware that we dont want to put on the Internet and we dont want an expensive waf so we use haproxy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Thank you for reviewing HAProxy. Are there ways we could make the learning curve easier?

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Paul B.
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What do you like best about HAProxy?

We use the open source version and enjoy the lightweight install. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

The only downsides are probably related to missing features due to using the free version Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Solving networking issues related to our big data platform servers.

This allows us to safely allow contractor and 3rd party access to some internal servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy
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Thank you for leaving a review. Although not all features are free, I believe that we strike a good balance.

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Jacob O.
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What do you like best about HAProxy?

I love the simplicity of configuration enhancing the speed of delivery. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

I haven't found a downside yet, of course we've only deployed for small scale testing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I was able to prove to our network team that they had a problem with their own loadbalancer by deploying the community edition HAproxy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Thank you for sharing your positive experience with HAProxy!

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Gavin R.
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What do you like best about HAProxy?

Customizations and performance are unmatched, requires additional config compared with managed services like ALB but significantly more powerful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

I'm occasionally confused by the config and docs thereof Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Routing HTTP requests based on metadata, frontend for a custom MySQL clustering solution Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy
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Which docs have you used in the past when learning HAProxy? I wanted to check which resources you found and whether they were helpful.

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Guray Y.
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What do you like best about HAProxy?

Great single page docs, highly configurable and easy config structure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

For a person who doesn't know about terms in its advanced parts it might be hard to get started. And a visual dasgboard might be useful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

As a load balancer with healthchecks, and also for TLS termination when required. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy
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Do you know about the Stats Page? It's a dashboard built into HAProxy. But HAProxy Fusion offers even more.

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Jonathan C.
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Cloud Architect
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What do you like best about HAProxy?

It's complete control over the connection management lifecycle Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

The config system is a bit esoteric .. have to learn a domain specific configuration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We needed a "smart@ router that could connect users to preconfigured and matched meeting servers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy
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The learning curve of the configuration language is what we hear the most. Thank you for sharing.

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Satyam J.
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Engineering Manager
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What do you like best about HAProxy?

The ability to define the backend and front end separately Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

We need API management for HaProxy, it's there in the latest version I guess. Can we book for the old one? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Load balancing and path based redirection Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy
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Data Plane API is available for managing it programmatically, and HAProxy Fusion for managing clusters of load balancers. Let me know if that helps.

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Fabrizio S.
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Chief Engineer
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What do you like best about HAProxy?

Scalabilty and options to control sepárate boundaries for traffic upstream and downstreams, rules, networking options complete availability, wide use cases, long presence as stable solución. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

Not a dislike, but it lost visbility vs Nginx ingress controller on kubernetes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Especially related to API Gateway. Partially loadbalancing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy
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I would love to dig into what you mean by visibility compared to NGINX. :-)

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Sujai S.
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Software development engineer III
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What do you like best about HAProxy?

Haproxy works well for us. We are able to use it on a very high scale with low latency and compute power. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

Config management seems to be little harder Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It's solving our NS layer use case. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy
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For config management have you checked out HAProxy Fusion?

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What do you like best about HAProxy?

Open source, easy to use, best performant Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

Not that many in know of. But there are many product integrations available. Probably. You should integrate Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We have several apis and also many servers behind a url. HA proxy is easy to use in both use cases Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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I would like to see which integrations.

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