Snapt Balancer Reviews

Great Value Balancer

Pros:

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

Cons:

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

Couldn't justify price of big name competition

Comments: 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.

Pros:

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.

Cons:

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.

Snapt Balancer from Reseller Perspective

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

Pros:

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.

Cons:

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

SnapT Management

Pros:

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.

Cons:

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.

As easy as 1,2,3

Comments: Snapt Balancer allowed us to speed up deployment of a complete lead balancing solution in minutes instead of the hours and some times days it took us to configure all of this manually.

Pros:

If you ever had to setup an Nginx load balancer by hand, you realize how complicated it can get, and with all the tuning parameters available for Nginx it becomes even more difficult to get a stable and day load balancer. Snapt Balancer had removed the complexity and made setting up a production grade load balancer as easy as 1,2,3.

Cons:

The documentation are quite modest and could be enhanced.

Very good load balancer coming from Netscaler

Comments: 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.

Pros:

- 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.

Cons:

- 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.

Fast and feature-rich

Comments: Overall a great buy if you need a fast, feature-rich, supported balancer.

Pros:

Snapt Balancer is very fast and lightweight. The entire bundle has a ton of features for a lot less. Customer support was pretty responsive.

Cons:

I found the documentation a bit thin. If I was familiar with the products and their specific terminology/phrasology it would have made more sense. And several annoying bugs kept us from implementing as rapidly as we'd hoped (but they did resolve the bugs fairly quickly). Finer/smaller regions for GEO would be nice, as well.

Great features, easy to use

Comments: Was recommended this service by a friend and was pleasantly surprised that it suited our all of our immediate requirements. We decided to move off of our custom HAproxy instance. as it was taking too much "developer" time administering it and keeping it up-to-date.

Pros:

- Very quick and easy to setup. - Fully featured - Met all of our immediate needs, that AWS and GCS solutions could not. - Well Priced - Eased a lot of the load off of our internal dev team

Cons:

- Requires learning curve to use some of the features

Must try cloud loadbalancer

Comments: Snapt has really good UI, it is based on Haproxy but their development team improve it and continue to it.

Pros:

It have very good and easy to use UI. There is no performance issues. You can scale your need from cloud panel. Support is very helpful.

Cons:

License fee's might be little bit high for on-premise usage. Clustering is hard to implement. Must try before buy

Great software

Comments: Innovative and amazing software, backed by a stellar team. This is the way to go for any load balancing needs

Great for Management

Pros:

Makes managing HAproxy and nginx simple.

Cons:

Interface alerts aren't always helpful (applying updates doesn't report on status/progress, just says that an update has been requested. Cost.

Great cost-effective replacement for our hw-based load balancers

Comments: We are in the process of migrating systems to our new Snapt instances and the customer support we have received has been fantastic.

Pros:

Easy to deploy, great reporting set, wizards to help setup common types of lb systems.

Cons:

Redundancy is a little confusing to understand.

Swift, robust and powerful at a great price point!

Comments: Downloaded the free trial and was soon after contacted by a Snapt representative offering their assistance and an option of a live demo. After the 30-60min tutorial I was ready to begin adding my servers to the Snapt platform. Certainly the best value for money load balancer/WAF/web accelerator I have come across.

Pros:

Ease of use. Rich feature set. Competitive price tag.

Snapt Balancer

Pros:

Cost effective solution that simplifies complicated network management

Cons:

Nothing negative to add as the setup was smooth and learning curve was minimal