We performed a comparison between Akamai Ion and NGINX Plus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."Akamai is easy to use and very effective."
"The load balancing module, which is equivalent to LTM, is the focus of the PSE. So far, the features of both are identical. I believe NGINX has more features for securing these services, but in terms of load balancing, both are massive solutions."
"When you use NGINX, you have more options and power."
"The robust software architecture allows for it to be scalable and very stable."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is simple to configure."
"The product is resilient."
"I find the solution’s community support and documentation most valuable. Compared to HAProxy, have found a lot of documentation and community support on Quora. If you would be asking me as a developer whether to choose this product, I would recommend this since it has good community support, documentation, and signature updates. The configuration of HAProxy is also very tedious. However, NGINX’s configuration is very simple."
"This solution has everything."
"I need to highlight that the number one thing about NGINX is that it is free."
"The product must provide more flexibility."
"Lack of a feature to print data on the terminal for verification of network traffic during debugging and testing."
"I would suggest adding GUI-based configuration panels to NGINX Plus to simplify setup and management tasks."
"It would be good if NGINX provided a graphical user interface."
"NGINX Plus is moderately priced, but it could give better value for money."
"The scaling should be built into the software rather than configured from an outside source."
"If NGINX brings some features for health check in the open source version, it would be better. "
"The drawback is that you must obtain a license for everything."
"The scalability could be improved."
Akamai Ion is ranked 15th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 1 review while NGINX Plus is ranked 5th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 28 reviews. Akamai Ion is rated 7.0, while NGINX Plus is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Akamai Ion writes "Helps optimize the content delivery network, but doesn’t provide much flexibility". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". Akamai Ion is most compared with , whereas NGINX Plus is most compared with IIS, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Apache Web Server.
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