HAProxy Community Edition vs. Shape Software

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
HAProxy Community Edition
Score 9.3 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
Shape Software
Score 7.0 out of 10
N/A
Shape Software aims to help users manage their business in one easy to use software. Shape's cloud-based CRM, Sales Management, and Marketing Automation tools offer multiple features designed to manage and automate online marketing and promotions via email and SMS, capture and service leads from online sources, organize sales pipelines, nurture prospects and customers, create and send professional online documents, accept online payments, run custom reporting, and automate everyday admin…
$79
per user
Pricing
HAProxy Community EditionShape Software
Editions & Modules
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All inclusive cloud software, one price, no annual contracts
$79.00
per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
HAProxy Community EditionShape Software
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee$79 per user
Additional DetailsAll inclusive cloud software, one price, no annual contracts.
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Community Pulse
HAProxy Community EditionShape Software
Features
HAProxy Community EditionShape Software
Sales Force Automation
Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of Product A and Product B
HAProxy Community Edition
-
Ratings
Shape Software
7.0
1 Ratings
11% below category average
Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
HAProxy Community Edition
-
Ratings
Shape Software
5.0
1 Ratings
42% below category average
API for custom integration00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
HAProxy Community Edition
-
Ratings
Shape Software
8.0
1 Ratings
5% below category average
Single sign-on capability00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
CRM Project Management
Comparison of CRM Project Management features of Product A and Product B
HAProxy Community Edition
-
Ratings
Shape Software
7.0
1 Ratings
10% below category average
Reporting00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
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Score 9.2 out of 10
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Score 9.2 out of 10
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Enterprises
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Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
HAProxy Community EditionShape Software
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(7 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
9.1
(2 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
9.7
(2 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
HAProxy Community EditionShape Software
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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Shape Software
Shape Software is well suited when using "mainstream" ad platforms that have robust integrations. It also works well when budgets are set less frequently and are allowed to run unchanged for a set period of time. Shape Software gets less accurate when frequent budget changes need to be made and when using ad platforms with little to no support built into Shape Software.
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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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Shape Software
  • Platform integrations
  • Pacing accuracy
  • Automated notifications
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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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Shape Software
  • Automated budget pacing could be more sophisticated - it tends to conflict with platform best-practices in my opinion.
  • Integration with LinkedIn leads would give more accurate picture of conversion volume I believe.
  • More customizable alerts
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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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Shape Software
Shape Software is very easy to set up and use. The core functions and features require little explanation. The options and settings are easy to find and the capabilities of the platform are apparent to the user after just a few minutes of use.
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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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Shape Software
I never had the need or opportunity to work with support.
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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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Shape Software
Shape Software is very user-friendly and easy to set up. The controls and settings are very straightforward and the core functions (onboarding new accounts, creating new budgets, managing budgets, etc) are easily understood. The customizable alerts and budget intervals provide modularity for different situations and provide significant peace-of-mind. The automations are less impressive in that they generally conflict with ad platform automation in my opinion. Automated bidding and budgeting is hindered by third-party automations like Shape Software and the performance Shape Software features provide doesn't justify forgoing that technology in the ad platforms in my opinion.
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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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Shape Software
  • Reliable protection against overspend
  • Precise budget control
  • Cross-platform visibility
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