We used them as well for a few years. Morgan is spot-on. We did have some outages caused by them -- the sync process used for failover would fail, and then we'd end up with split brain conditions where one would die and the other wouldn't become the primary. If you look in their forums, their primary niche market is Windows admins that don't know too much about networking. In other words, customers who just want a black box.
We also upgraded to F5's, and are very happy with the result. Comparing the two is like comparing a Kia to a BMW, both in features and in cost. If HAProxy was then where it is now, I would have used HAProxy instead. We actually use HAProxy for some internal stuff, and it's a pleasure to work with. F5 gets away with charging what they do, because they truly are the best at doing it. All in all, I'd say we got our money's worth out of them, but I'd take a different route if I were to do it again today. Hope that helps, Justin On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Nathan Hruby <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > FWIW, haproxy has come a long way recently and has several companies > (Aloha, Exceliance) that offer supported hardware and software platforms > for haproxy. If you're looking at CoyotePoint, you should also check out > these guys. > > And no, it's not equal to an F5, which I still feel is the gold standard > for Load Balancing. > > -n > > > On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Matthew Barr <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Anyone used them? Thoughts? >> >> http://www.coyotepoint.com/ >> >> Matthew >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators >> http://lopsa.org/ >> > > > > -- > ------------------------------------------- > nathan hruby <[email protected]> > metaphysically wrinkle-free > ------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > >
_______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
