Best Load Balancing

Products Buyer's Guide
9.2
Nginx
★★★★★

Nginx

free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy

The reverse proxy product that does everything you need - Andriy S.

Ease of use
8.5
Support
9.4
Ease of Setup
0.0

Languages supported: English

7.6
Barracuda Load Balancer ADC
★★★★★

Barracuda Load Balancer ADC

The Barracuda Load Balancer ADC is ideal for organizations looking for a high-performance, yet cost-effective application delivery and security solution.

Easy to deploy and the best support you get from the support team. - Administrator in Government Administration

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Languages supported: English

7.4
Control-M for Mainframe
★★★★★

Control-M for Mainframe

Control-M for Mainframe quickly and securely automates workload management, reduces risk and errors, and gives you access to the information you need to unlock the full value of your mainframe.

Control-M for Mainframe - Consultant in Information Technology and Services

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9.8
Kemp
★★★★★

Kemp

Kemp powers always on Application Experience #AX Application Delivery at the center of the #MultiCloud #DevOps #AppDelivery #Azure #AWS #SDN

KEMP LoadMaster is a really good load balancer - Paolo C.

Ease of use
9.4
Support
9.8
Ease of Setup
9.4

Languages supported: English

9.4
Akamai CloudTest
★★★★★

Akamai CloudTest

CloudTest provides a comprehensive performance platform for quickly validating and optimizing web and mobile user experience.

Scalable And Stable - Edward L.

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8.6
Azure Application Gateway
★★★★★

Azure Application Gateway

Azure Application Gateway gives you application-level routing and load balancing services that let you build a scalable and highly-available web front end in Azure.

Azure Application Gateway - A good option but needs refinement - Eusuf K.

Ease of use
8.9
Support
8.3
Ease of Setup
8.1
9.4
SANtricity Software
★★★★★

SANtricity Software

Performance-optimized SANtricity software delivers data with high IOPs, high throughput and low latency to all your data analytics, video surveillance, and backup apps.

Easy to manage - Leandro S.

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9.0
HAProxy
★★★★★

HAProxy

HAProxy allows customers to take full advantage of HAProxy, a world renowned load balancer, and software application delivery controller, combined with enterprise-class features, services, and premium support.

A trusty tool - Nikola K.

Ease of use
8.2
Support
9.1
Ease of Setup
7.9
9.0
Varnish Software
★★★★★

Varnish Software

Varnish Software is the company behind Varnish Cache, the open source HTTP accelerator.

Very good at managing content and softwares! - Ashik Z.

Ease of use
8.3
Support
9.3
Ease of Setup
8.5

Languages supported: English

8.6
HashiCorp Consul
★★★★★

HashiCorp Consul

Consul makes it simple for services to register themselves and to discover other services via a DNS or HTTP interface.

Yet easiest service i know - Donatas F.

Ease of use
8.9
Support
8.3
Ease of Setup
0.0

Languages supported: English

6.0
Alteon VA
★★★★★

Alteon VA

Alteon VA is a fully-featured Alteon application delivery controller (ADC), packaged as a virtual load balancer running on virtualized server infrastructure.

ADC security platform efficiency with waf functionalities over virtualization environment - Administrator in Oil & Energy

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10.0
Total Uptime Cloud Load Balancer
★★★★★

Total Uptime Cloud Load Balancer

Total Uptime's Cloud Load Balancer gives you complete control over network traffic on the Internet before it gets to the datacenter.

Great ADC-as-a-Service - Administrator in Information Technology and Services

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Languages supported: English

10.0
Avi Vantage Platform
★★★★★

Avi Vantage Platform

Avi Networks enables public-cloud-like simplicity and flexibility for application services such as load balancing, application analytics, and security in any data center or cloud.

Strong Product, Strong Costs, Strong Support - Administrator in Information Services

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8.4
AWS Elastic Load Balancing
★★★★★

AWS Elastic Load Balancing

Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances.

The Most Efficient Network load balancer in The Market - User in Financial Services

Ease of use
8.9
Support
8.0
Ease of Setup
8.7
7.8
BIG-IP Cloud Edition
★★★★★

BIG-IP Cloud Edition

BIG-IP Cloud Edition provides application services ranging from access and acceleration to security to intelligent traffic management.

Use of BIG-IP Cloud Editions in a Work from Home world - George H.

Ease of use
8.3
Support
7.3
Ease of Setup
0.0
9.2
Traefik
★★★★★

Traefik

Trik (pronounced like traffic) is a modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer made to deploy microservices with ease. It supports several backends (Docker, Swarm mode, Kubernetes, Marathon, Consul, Etcd, Rancher, Amazon ECS, and a lot more) to manage its configuration automatically and dynamically.

Cloud native routing done - Christian R.

Ease of use
8.5
Support
9.4
Ease of Setup
8.0

Languages supported: English

8.2
Citrix ADC
★★★★★

Citrix ADC

Citrix ADC is an application delivery and load balancing solution that provides a high-quality user experience for your web, traditional, and cloud-native applications regardless of where they are hosted.

Load Balancing Citrix ADC - MOHAMMAD R.

Ease of use
7.7
Support
8.2
Ease of Setup
7.3
8.4
Azure Traffic Manager
★★★★★

Azure Traffic Manager

Azure Traffic Manager is a cloud-based load balancing service that allows you to control the distribution of user traffic for service endpoints in different datacenters.

I love it, it works perfectly - Elisa C.

Ease of use
9.0
Support
8.0
Ease of Setup
10.0
8.6
Azure Load Balancer
★★★★★

Azure Load Balancer

Azure Load Balancer is a built-in load balancing for cloud services and virtual machines, you can create highly-available and scalable applications in minutes. Azure Load Balancer supports TCP/UDP-based protocols such as HTTP, HTTPS, and SMTP, and protocols used for real-time voice and video messaging applications.

Reliable Load Balancer in the Cloud - User in Research

Ease of use
8.1
Support
8.5
Ease of Setup
8.2
9.0
Fastly Load Balancer
★★★★★

Fastly Load Balancer

FastlyLayer 7 load balancer allows you to define content-aware routing decisions while ensuring instant convergence and failover. Unlike DNS-based solutions, you get immediate and granular control. We also provide improved performance and cost savings over ADCs, especially during flash traffic.

Best distribution Algorothms for best load management and balancing - Gloria T.

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9.0
Loadbalancer.org Enterprise VA R20
★★★★★

Loadbalancer.org Enterprise VA R20

Loadbalancer.org Enterprise VA R20 is a virtualised server load balancer that offer unlimited throughput, bandwidth, it is certified for various Microsoft applications, it supports any TCP or UDP protocols and it can be run under VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, Xen or VirtualBox.

Muy estable y con un mantenimiento mГ­nimo - Alejandro P.

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Languages supported: German, English

8.0
ETERNUS
★★★★★

ETERNUS

FUJITSU ETERNUSВ® Management Software

Eternus Review of Fujitsu Product - User in Higher Education

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8.0
Loader.io
★★★★★

Loader.io

Loader.io is a FREE load testing service that allows you to stress test your web-apps & apis with thousands of concurrent connections.

Makes load testing super easy - Administrator in Airlines/Aviation

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8.0
IBM Load Balancer
★★★★★

IBM Load Balancer

Load balance traffic among your servers to improve uptime and easily scale your applications by adding or removing servers, with minimal disruption to your traffic flows

Hassle free deployment with flexible features - Administrator in Financial Services

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7.0
Pound
★★★★★

Pound

Pound was developed to enable distributing the load among several Web-servers and to allow for a convenient SSL wrapper for those Web servers that do not offer it natively.

It works really well. - Brandon M.

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6.0
Alibaba Server Load Balancer
★★★★★

Alibaba Server Load Balancer

Alibaba Cloud Server Load Balancer (SLB) distributes traffic among multiple instances to improve the service capabilities of your applications. You can use SLB to prevent single point of failures (SPOFs) and improve the availability and the fault tolerance capability of your applications. Promotions: EIP is now available in Alibaba Cloud's international regions. Alibaba Cloud also offers 15% discount for EIP service in the Hong Kong region.

Serves the purpose, Console hasn't matured yet - Prayash M.

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