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ALOHA or HAproxy ?

Main differences

ALOHA LB is a commercial product built from the well known open source software HAProxy. The following matrix will try to treat some of the typical questions that Exceliance regularly have to answer about choosing between free HAProxy software or ALOHA LB commercial appliance.

We hope that you will find here the right answers that will help you to make your mind.

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	HAProxy on generic system (Solaris, Red Hat, Suse,...)	HAProxy on recent system (Linux 2.6, FreeBSD,...)	HAProxy on Linux 2.4 strongly patched	Standard ALOHA (HW, SA, VA)
Concurrent Sessions	avg. 1000 max.	> 40 000	> 40 000	> 40 000
Systeme maintenance	required	required	required	none
System / network tuning	recommanded	required	required	already optimized
HTTPS support	possible	possible	possible	included
High availability	-	possible	possible	included
IP Routing / Filtering	-	possible	possible	included
Address translation	-	possible	possible	included
SYN Flood Protection	-	possible	possible	included
Active FTP support	-	-	possible	included
Hot configuration	-	-	Yes	Yes
Transparent mode	-	-	Yes	Yes
SNMP monitoring	-	-	-	included
Configuration Synchronization	-	-	-	included
Certificates management	-	-	-	included
Web interface	-	-	-	included
Statistics	-	-	-	included
Centralized configurations	-	-	-	included
Local logs buffering	-	-	-	included
System/config. backup	-	-	-	included
SNMP (MIB) compatibility	-	-	-	included
Services
Hardware/software warranty	-			Yes
Updates management	-			Yes
Setup assistance	possible			included
Technical support	possible			included

Notes:

"required"/"recommanded" means that its illusory thinking to get an optimal system up and running without considering these steps.
"possible" means that the feature may be available if additional patches and/or packages are correctly installed and configured.