Snapt Balancer

Couldn't justify price of big name competition

Kommentare: We are using Snapt to provide HA based redundancy across two physical sites. We had attempted to do this previously with a standard Linux/HAProxy solution which gave some peculiar issues and was difficult to configure, maintain and monitor. Snapt takes away all the problems and provides a clean and simple GUI to control and view all aspects.

Vorteile:

Took less than 15 mins to install and setup (using VM Appliance installation) to provide add HA protection to our MS Exchange environment. After trialling for 7 days we then started trials on a similar products. Within 3 hours of trialling we were back on Snapt and putting it live in production. Documentation in not an polished as some competitive products but with support being helpful and very responsive (we are talking minutes not hours) then scratching heads and reading documents to work out what to do is really not needed.

Nachteile:

We have been using Snapt for around four months now. The only issue we have found has been with GUI performance slowing down but this was fixes by having the Snapt support guys assist in automatically trimming logs to keep the database to a reasonable size.

Great Value Balancer

Vorteile:

A lot cheaper than the big guys, but lots of features.

Nachteile:

The Let's Encrypt functionality is still a work in progress, if they can perfect this feature it will be an awesome product.

Snapt Balancer from Reseller Perspective

Kommentare: My customer seems to be happy with the seamless process so far.

Vorteile:

All I can say is that, as a representative of an IT reseller, Snapt was extremely prompt in providing pricing. I believe that this is a fine example of their customer service and devotion to their products.

Nachteile:

I have not been able to determine any cons at this point. pricing and processing seem to be smooth.

Very good load balancer coming from Netscaler

Kommentare: We were changing our datacenters from and to a different geographical location. The deployment of the virtual appliance and configuration were so easy, it made us wonder why the heavy hitters like Netscaler or F5 are so expensive.

Vorteile:

- Simplicity of creating loadbalanced front- and backends, especially coming from Citrix Netscaler. - Powerful HAproxy options can be used with raw config editing. - NGINX can be used for UDP load balancing and website optimization through Snapt Accelerator. - Backend checks work very good, no customer downtime because server instances that are not available. - Slack integration for alerts works very good, we don't need SMS any more. - We can use iptables/ipset to block blacklisted IP's! This drop a LOT of traffic which are not from our clients. - Configuration backups are sent by mail automatically after installing the plugin.

Nachteile:

- SNMP checks are not supported and snmpd is not installable(but Slack alerts leverage that) - Server grouping into dynamic objects would be nice since we now have to disable the same servers in different backends.

SnapT Management

Vorteile:

Using SnapT is easy and straightforward. The wizard for creating a load balancer was quick and simple. No need to know all the necessary ports and other settings. It is handled for you.

Nachteile:

When setting up our load balancer for Exchange, even though it was simple with the wizard, it still took a little tweaking to get functional. But from a systems administrator perspective, it is something we like to do anyways.