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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Datto Switches

    Score2 out of 10
    N/ADatto Networking Switches are presented as a solution to allow MSPs to deliver affordable, high-performance switching to connect devices and users across a network. Datto’s Switches are designed to accommodate virtually any sized network configuration a small to medium sized business might need. With five models spread across two series (L-Series and E-Series), Datto Switches deliver plug-and-play integration with Datto Networking Access Points, to simplify how MSPs deploy and manage their…N/A

    HAProxy Community Edition

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/AHAProxy Community Edition is a free, open source reverse-proxy offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications. It is presented as suited for very high traffic web sites.

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    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    Datto SwitchesHAProxy Community Edition
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
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    9.0
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    Usability
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    9.1
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    Support Rating
    -
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    9.7
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    User Testimonials
    Datto SwitchesHAProxy Community Edition
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Kaseya
    good value for PoE switching for simple devices like cameras and wireless access points. easy to deploy from remote and easy to toggle ports
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    Open Source
    It prevents a single server failure from being a downtime event by adding redundancy to every layer of your architecture. A load balancer facilitates redundancy for the backend layer (web/app servers), but for a true high availability setup, you need to have redundant load balancers as well. So it is well suited for all production related servers and less suited for individual servers that do not require redundancy.
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    Pros
    Kaseya
    • managed ports via the cloud
    • easy to deploy and managed
    • advance replacements on warrenty items
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    Open Source
    • Low-Cost Load Balancer
    • Intelligent Request Routing based on URL and/or URI
    • Extremely flexible load balancing and healthchecks, can do almost anything including HTTP, HTTPS, PostgreSQL, etc.
    • SSL Termination
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    Cons
    Kaseya
    • cleaner web gui
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    Open Source
    • A few, rare times each year, HAProxy CPU utilization spikes to 100% and server has to be rebooted - this may be related to HAProxy OR it could be an external factor causing this.
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    Usability
    Kaseya
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    Open Source
    It is very easy to use. I was able to find a lot of documents for it on the internet. Very good community support. There are lots of examples available to try. We mostly use a command-line user interface to interact with it. The CLI is also super easy to use and very easy to interact with
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    Support Rating
    Kaseya
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    Open Source
    We haven't used customer support. We mostly used the community version. We build a multi-node HAProxy cluster with HA to the proxy itself using opensource plugins available. With the support available on the internet and the documents available we don't need to use much customer support.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Kaseya
    lower end of the spectrum of managed switches but good deal for simple devices like wireless access points or cameras
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    Open Source
    We chose HA Proxy because it is cheaper than a hardware balancer, it is an open-source solution with a large community behind it and with constant updates. It also allows custom scripts according to needs.HA Proxy is a solution used in many internet sites like GitHub, Reddit, Twitter, and Tuenti.
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    Return on Investment
    Kaseya
    • if the client does not pay up, can disable the device and "soft brick" the device
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    Open Source
    • Significantly lower investment vs competitors. In the case of F5s we have Virtual Editions so we're paying for the hardware to run it on top of the several thousand dollar licenses that are required for each pair and we currently have a pair of F5s per client so there's a huge potential for cost savings there.
    • Requires our network engineers to learn a new skill or our Systems engineers to take on the responsibility of managing the load balancers. It's not a huge difference either way, but it does impact the way we have done business in the past.
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