We performed a comparison between NGINX Plus and Radware Alteon 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."NGINX Plus also has NGINX App Protect. It's a separate module, which is inspired by the F5 apps."
"Valuable features include authentication, caching, reverse proxy routing, and load balancing."
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"The most valuable features are the gateway and the ability to publish to sites."
"When you use NGINX, you have more options and power."
"The product is lightweight and fast."
"Application Gateway with application-level firewall tool and load distributor and balancer (also serves for A/B testing)."
"It performs very well. That's one of the primary reasons we use NGINX."
"The solution has been very stable."
"The best features are the security through the web application firewall, the functionality that the solution offers, being a load balancer with the security functionality on top of it, and the ease of administration."
"It is easy to expand. Our clients are enterprise-size."
"The interface is easy, it's friendly, and has good alerting."
"The health status information, with its highly detailed reporting, has saved us time on troubleshooting. We have the precise information needed that helps us find different types of situations."
"It saves us a lot of work in terms of management since it has tasks already defined automatically. That enables us to better administer our services. It is very dynamic and easy to administer."
"Radware has been characterized by being extremely robust. This gives us the confidence to offer our users a continuous service."
"The product offers high availability."
"NGINX Plus is moderately priced, but it could give better value for money."
"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 needs to be easier to setup and deploy."
"It would be great if there was even more automation to make it even easier to maintain."
"I would suggest adding GUI-based configuration panels to NGINX Plus to simplify setup and management tasks."
"Improvement needed in NGINX Plus could focus on optimizing memory usage for users."
"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."
"The KPI should be more focused on load balancing and the latency in application calling from the end system."
"I would like this solution to have an integration tool that will convert configuration from other software, into readable values for this product during implementation."
"I would like the solution to display and help visualize the reference map more easily. I would also like to better understand where queries come from and know which users are consulting the application, along with which app."
"Radware Alteon could improve the troubleshooting from the command line interface, they could do a better job making it easier."
"Performance could be improved."
"Recently our team was talking about the things you can customize in Alteon and the level of programming that doing so demands. I would like to see more information on how to customize the programming and troubleshoot."
"We are in the process of updating our version of the solution, so judging what should be improved is difficult. But in some cases, the visualization takes a while, especially for mapping issues."
"Their support can be better. The Radware management is very proactive. We can connect to anybody in Radware Management in India. We can even connect with the MD of Radware India. However, their lower level staff should be more proactive towards the customers."
"The community portal does not have a place to find scripts."
NGINX Plus is ranked 5th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 28 reviews while Radware Alteon is ranked 6th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 33 reviews. NGINX Plus is rated 8.8, while Radware Alteon is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Radware Alteon writes "It's a good fit for a small team because the maintenance is easier and you don't need to know how to code". NGINX Plus is most compared with IIS, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and A10 Networks Thunder ADC, whereas Radware Alteon is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Citrix NetScaler, HAProxy, A10 Networks Thunder ADC and Barracuda Web Application Firewall. See our NGINX Plus vs. Radware Alteon report.
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