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    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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    Reachdesk

    Score6.8 out of 10
    N/AReachdesk in London provides a direct mail marketing solution.N/A
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    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    HAProxy Community EditionReachdesk
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    F5 BIG-IP
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    User Ratings
    HAProxy Community EditionReachdesk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    6.0
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.7
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    HAProxy Community EditionReachdesk
    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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    Reachdesk
    It is well suited for employees that are sending products, samples, gift cards, or swag to customers, prospects, or partners constantly. It helps speed up and streamline that process a considerable amount. This helps with brand recognition, onboarding new partners, and keeping customers happy! This has helped my company increase sales activity and increase business as well.
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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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    Reachdesk
    • Help us standout.
    • Leave a lasting impression.
    • Build relationships with customers.
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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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    Reachdesk
    • Clunky campaign in my experience
    • Unintuitive interface, in my opinion
    • Bad warehousing in my experience
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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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    Reachdesk
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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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    Reachdesk
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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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    Reachdesk
    We selected Reachdesk because from a capability standpoint, they were very similar but Reachdesk had much better pricing.
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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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    Reachdesk
    • Significantly increased pipeline and huge ROI
    • Allowed us to scale ABM rapidly
    Incentivized
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    Screenshot of Address confirmation: To reach people no matter where they are and let them choose where they want to receive their gift with an email addressScreenshot of Reachdesk for People: To show a team how much they are valued and create a culture of appreciation with personalized gifting to celebrate life and work milestones, or as rewards at the end of a demanding projectScreenshot of Reachdesk for events: To create unforgettable virtual experiences, or ship swag directly to an in-person event venue without having to worry about logistics