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HAProxy is an excellent load balancer
August 13, 2019

HAProxy is an excellent load balancer

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with HAProxy

It is an excellent software load balancer. it is very configurable and easy to manage. We use it in multiple places in our organization. We are using it to manage around 20 microservices. So far we haven't faced any issues. We deployed it using Keepalived to make it highly available all the time.
  • Load balancing.
  • SSL/TLS termination.
  • Health checking.
  • Can't think of anything at this time.
  • So far it's been great!
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.
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.
HAProxy is useful for both level 4 and level 7 load balancing, SSL termination, etc. It is a software load balancer, so it is not good in cases where we need a hardware load balancing to solve our business problems. It is a bit memory intensive, so we need to watch out for it.