HAProxy Community Edition vs. Loadbalancer Enterprise ADC

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
HAProxy Community Edition
Score 9.4 out of 10
N/A
HAProxy 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.
$0
Loadbalancer Enterprise ADC
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) built on open source technology, available as hardware or virtual solutions.
$3,995
Pricing
HAProxy Community EditionLoadbalancer Enterprise ADC
Editions & Modules
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Enterprise AWS
$3995
Enterprise Prime
$4,995
Enterprise Flex
$9,995
Enterprise Max
$20,995
Enterprise VA Prime Site License
$23,970 perpetual license or $1,080 per month
Enterprise VA Max
$39,570 perpetual license or $1,790 per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
HAProxy Community EditionLoadbalancer Enterprise ADC
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
HAProxy Community EditionLoadbalancer Enterprise ADC
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Small Businesses
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Score 9.7 out of 10
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Score 9.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
NGINX
NGINX
Score 9.7 out of 10
NGINX
NGINX
Score 9.7 out of 10
Enterprises
NGINX
NGINX
Score 9.7 out of 10
NGINX
NGINX
Score 9.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
HAProxy Community EditionLoadbalancer Enterprise ADC
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.7
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
HAProxy Community EditionLoadbalancer Enterprise ADC
Likelihood to Recommend
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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Loadbalancer, Inc
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Pros
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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Loadbalancer, Inc
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Cons
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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Loadbalancer, Inc
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Usability
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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Loadbalancer, Inc
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Support Rating
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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Loadbalancer, Inc
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Alternatives Considered
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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Loadbalancer, Inc
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Return on Investment
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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Loadbalancer, Inc
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