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HAProxy Community Edition vs. NGINX

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HAProxy Community Edition

21 Reviews and Ratings

NGINX

140 Reviews and Ratings

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    Overview
    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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    NGINX

    Score9.2 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    		NGINX, a business unit of F5 Networks, powers over 65% of the world's busiest websites and web applications. NGINX started out as an open source web server and reverse proxy, built to be faster and more efficient than Apache. Over the years, NGINX has built a suite of infrastructure software products o tackle some of the biggest challenges in managing high-transaction applications. NGINX offers a suite of products to form the core of what organizations need to create…N/A
    Pricing
    HAProxy Community EditionNGINX
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
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    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
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    Considered Both Products
    Open Source
    José Javier Dominguez Reina
    Jefe de Proyecto in Information Technology at SANDETEL (Telecommunications, 201-500 employees)
    Chose HAProxy Community Edition
    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, …
    Incentivized
    F5
    Verified User
    Chose NGINX
    Nginx's cache mechanism is better than Apache and HAProxy. Also Nginx is very light weight and works for multiple sites with much less work. i.e. As front end proxy server configuration is very easy as compared to other applications. Apache sometimes crashes and is not able to …
    Incentivized
    L Matthew Blancett
    Senior DevOps Engineer in Engineering at Conversant Inc. (formerly Dotomi) (Marketing and Advertising, 5001-10,000 employees)
    Chose NGINX
    NetApp, f1, etc., [I've] used them all. I find using commodity hardware across diverse endpoints running software solutions is cheaper while being more available than individual hardware solutions. and I find Nginx to be the best proxy solution that can do everything we need.
    Incentivized
    Will Stern
    Software Architect in Information Technology at HigherEducation.com (Education Management, 51-200 employees)
    Chose NGINX
    As I mentioned before, I'd chose Nginx over HAProxy any day. It's just simpler to use, has more features and less quirks.
    Incentivized
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
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    Application Servers
    Comparison of Application Servers features of HAProxy Community Edition and NGINX
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    Ratings
    NGINX
    7.8
    21 Ratings
    IDE support00 Ratings7.210 Ratings
    Security management00 Ratings8.018 Ratings
    Administration and management00 Ratings7.018 Ratings
    Application server performance00 Ratings8.018 Ratings
    Installation00 Ratings9.718 Ratings
    Open-source standards compliance00 Ratings7.016 Ratings
    User Ratings
    HAProxy Community EditionNGINX
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    8.8
    (48 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.7
    (2 ratings)
    8.1
    (4 ratings)