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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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    Twingate

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/ATwingate allows businesses to secure remote access to their private applications, data, and environments, whether they are on-premise or in the cloud. Built to make the lives of DevOps teams, IT teams, and end users easier, it replaces outdated corporate VPNs which were not built to handle a world in which "work from anywhere" and cloud-based assets are increasingly the norm. Twingate’s modern zero trust-based approach to securing remote access focuses on improving security,…

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    Pricing
    HAProxy Community EditionTwingate
    Editions & Modules
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    Starter Plan
    $0
    Teams Plan
    $5
    per user per month
    Business Plan
    $10
    per user per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    HAProxy Community EditionTwingate
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—An Enterprise Plan with customized pricing is also available.
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    HAProxy Community EditionTwingate
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    F5 BIG-IP
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    Enterprises
    F5 BIG-IP
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Forescout Vistaro Platform
    Score6.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    HAProxy Community EditionTwingate
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    9.5
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.7
    (2 ratings)
    9.5
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    HAProxy Community EditionTwingate
    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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    Twingate
    The product as well as the admin panel is getting richer. Would love port-level access control as well as some more analytics in the admin panel. From what I hear, the team is actively working on it
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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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    Twingate
    • Easy access management for cloud resources, better security than VPN or IP allow lists
    • 2FA via Google Login or OKTA
    • Easy to onboard external team members (contractors, partners, clients, etc)
    • Was easily approved by my partner security teams to use alongside their VPN client with no conflicts.
    • Zero-trust security is a must-have feature these days!
    • You pay for User, not Client or Resources--easy to roll out to all devices used by your users.
    • No more hassle of maintaining IP allow lists for WFH/remote teams
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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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    Twingate
    • Windows installation had a small glitch, customer support helped quickly resolve the issue
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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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    Twingate
    For the end-user, it is essentially an on-off switch integrated with our Identify Protection Solution
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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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    Twingate
    Support team understood my challenge and was able to influence product direction to expedite support for my features - A+!
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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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    Twingate
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Twingate
    • The ROI has been immediate especially since we are all working remotely during the COVID-19 situation.
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