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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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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    Magic xpa Application Platform

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AMagic xpa Application Platform is an application server and infrastructure from Magic Technologies in California.N/A
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    HAProxy Community EditionMagic xpa Application Platform
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    HAProxy Community EditionMagic xpa Application Platform
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    HAProxy Community EditionMagic xpa Application Platform
    Application Servers
    Comparison of Application Servers features of HAProxy Community Edition and Magic xpa Application Platform
    Feature
    HAProxy Community Edition
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    Ratings
    Magic xpa Application Platform
    7.0
    1 Ratings
    12% below category average
    IDE support00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Security management00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Administration and management00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Application server performance00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Installation00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Open-source standards compliance00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    HAProxy Community EditionMagic xpa Application Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    8.0
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    Usability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    9.7
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    HAProxy Community EditionMagic xpa Application Platform
    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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    Magic Software Enterprises
    In our experience, the product performs really well when interfacing systems with ERP's through SQL server database tables, but we've even made some interfaces with the web service functionality included with the magic xpi integration platform. Also, we've made some SAP Business One - SAP Business One interfaces, for copying information from one company to another and even between two different ERP systems.
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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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    Magic Software Enterprises
    • The UI is really simple to use, you have source/destination mapping for the items.
    • The scheduler gives you a lot of options when executing the models.
    • The error handling is usually pretty good and the errors can be corrected fast.
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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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    Magic Software Enterprises
    • Although the scenarios may be online, the main service usually freezes and the processes can't transact any data. With a single restart of the service, the processes will be functioning again.
    • The support for more applications would be nice, even though there is a nice number of them. Most of the main applications in the market are supported.
    • The licensing for the software may be a little confusing; you can't buy individual licenses as they come in packages of four.
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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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    Magic Software Enterprises
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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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    Magic Software Enterprises
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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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    Magic Software Enterprises
    Honestly, we have only used and evaluated magic xpi/xpa platforms because of the recommendation of our SAP Business One main supplier, who has previously used the platform for their developments. So far, we have no regrets with the acquisition of the platform and we are very happy with its performance.
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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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    Magic Software Enterprises
    • The implementation time for this kind of projects has been greatly reduced.
    • Certifying an In-House resource in the Magix xpi and xpa platforms is probably the best option, considering all of the projects that can be developed in the future without the need of an external consultant.
    • The processes that have been automatized with the Magic xpi platform helped reduce human error and the time those processes took to finish.
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