We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiADC and NGINX Plus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The GSLB, the DR side, is the best part. Because we had our main side in one city, we created another, and we had a complete MPLS over the internet. We used the GSLB and data loss for our business applications."
"Fortinet FortiADC is a good product because each and every piece of content is monitored by it."
"Key features include SSL Offloading, VM availability, and L7 load balancing."
"Content caching and content compression are good features."
"Because ADC is the intermediary between the servers and the end-user application, it gives thorough information about the traffic, what the problem is."
"It's a good product because it supports all the features that ADC solutions in the market can support, like F5 solutions, for example, such as the LTM of F5."
"Ease of use in deploying and having it up and running requires minimal knowledge."
"Although FortiADC has multiple features that I like, the global DNS is the most helpful. It is primarily useful for customers with huge environments and at least two data centers. FortiADC can act as your DNS server. It can check which data center has the lowest latency, and route traffic to that one. It's an intelligent DNS."
"The flexibility of its modules allow it to be scalable."
"Nginx is extremely efficient in terms of the connection rate to the CPU cycles ratio, and in terms of the bandwidth to CPU cycles."
"I need to highlight that the number one thing about NGINX is that it is free."
"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 I worked in a security research center, we tested NGINX to support DoS and DDoS attacks, and its results were great."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is simple to configure."
"It's lightweight software that can handle heavy loads efficiently."
"This solution has everything."
"Issues with SSL and encrypted traffic."
"I think it would be helpful if Fortinet put more video examples on their cookbook site."
"The solution's WAF needs an upgrade because it is not as good as FortiWeb, VMware, F5, or Imperva."
"The L7 Persistent load-balancing algorithm has not worked for me after having tested it many times with my customer's in-house application. I'd like to suggest that the company make sure that all load-balancing algorithms work properly with most applications, even those that are in-house apps."
"It would be good if they built in a fully functional web application firewall."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"FortiADC is complex to configure so the interface should be improved."
"I had a terrible experience with Fortinet support. I only used support once when I bought the solution. I got no response for two days. However, I believe that it's no longer the case. Fortinet solutions have problems when they're launched. For example, we had issues with Fortinet's authenticator when it came out. We also had trouble with FortiNAC in the beginning."
"I would suggest adding GUI-based configuration panels to NGINX Plus to simplify setup and management tasks."
"Only improvement needed that I would point to is scalability. With it, I mean clusterized organisation on a low level. At the moment, the best alternative is RHEL HA."
"Lack of a feature to print data on the terminal for verification of network traffic during debugging and testing."
"The scalability could be improved."
"Make modules easier to enable or disable. The beauty and ugly side of the NGINX modules is you have to know how to compile the module. For beginners or non-very technical aspirant(s) going for NGINX, they have to learn how to compile the modules."
"The solution must improve its performance."
"Our most challenging part was to run an older PHP website reverse-proxied through NGINX. That was not fun."
"The solution's GUI is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
Fortinet FortiADC is ranked 8th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 19 reviews while NGINX Plus is ranked 5th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 28 reviews. Fortinet FortiADC is rated 7.8, while NGINX Plus is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiADC writes "High-level load balancing and routing protocols but scalability is limited to 200 gigabits". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". Fortinet FortiADC is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Fortinet FortiWeb, Citrix NetScaler, Kemp LoadMaster and FortiGSLB, whereas NGINX Plus is most compared with IIS, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Avi Networks Software Load Balancer. See our Fortinet FortiADC vs. NGINX Plus report.
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