Thanks for the feedback. I've provided a few replies below but I think you have made some great points and I will share them internally.
> - the site does not do a good job of describing the products and what they do.
The page does lead off by telling you it is a software load balancer, but I agree, we can do a better job of giving more information on the product itself. Most people who pursue HAProxy Enterprise are already familiar with HAProxy. With that said, we're actually working on a complete overhaul to this page and I believe the new version will address this.
> - it is hard to find requirements from the first page.
This is just a reference point and typically organizations are working closely with a sales engineer.
> - is there a simpler HA setup than the 3 layer one here:
A simpler version is found under active/standby here [1]
Thank you. Just for info, my personal experience working for a very big American company is that every time I call a product company for information, I get intensely called back months in a row even if the product does not meet our needs, so I prefer not to do that anymore and to dig myself for info until I figure if that is looking very promising. Maybe it is not the same in your case, but who acts assuming it's an exception?
You don't need 5, especially when the load balancing is part of the network or infrastructure team that are a different group. Some companies have hardware load balancers, some use products like VMWare NSX or both, depending on the needs. When you are a Windows shop, HAProxy is not on the short list, hearing about it and actually knowing it are 2 different sides of the coin.
> - the site does not do a good job of describing the products and what they do.
The page does lead off by telling you it is a software load balancer, but I agree, we can do a better job of giving more information on the product itself. Most people who pursue HAProxy Enterprise are already familiar with HAProxy. With that said, we're actually working on a complete overhaul to this page and I believe the new version will address this.
> - it is hard to find requirements from the first page.
This is just a reference point and typically organizations are working closely with a sales engineer.
> - is there a simpler HA setup than the 3 layer one here:
A simpler version is found under active/standby here [1]
[1] https://www.haproxy.com/documentation/hapee/2-2r1/high-avail...