We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Linode based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."The most valuable feature I found is iRules."
"The configuration and integration into the AWS environment was pretty easy."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is IP Intelligence."
"Tech support has been very quick to respond to all of the needs that we've had. If you want ad-hoc support. They also provide professional services that you can purchase as well."
"It is a very good, flexible solution. It helps us to catch up on flaws in our partner solutions on top of its load balancing feature."
"The initial setup is easy."
"it has TCP LAN and WAN optimization features. It has has caching."
"Secure and scalable traffic management solution for applications. Good for bigger environments."
"We can scale up and down as we require."
"The solution integrates easily."
"The simplicity by which you can handle your inventory is one of the things I like the most."
"It has helped to minimize the risk and scale services at large in virtually no time."
"The fact that you can get a person on the phone has just been fantastic."
"The creation of instances is very good, as is their interface which is not complex and is easy to use. With the dashboard it is easy to create a new instance and add your favorite things. You can add Debian, Ubuntu, or CentOS, or any flavor of operating system. You can select the RAM for your instance as well."
"The cloud management panel is nice."
"Linode has many other cloud servers across the globe."
"Its price can be better. It is a bit expensive."
"Implementing whitepapers with a lot more applications could easily be added."
"The UI could be improved."
"One area for improvement with F5 BIG-IP LTM could be its pricing, which some may find on the higher side."
"It reaches a point where scaling is no longer possible."
"If one virtual portion is unavailable, it can cause issues."
"The initial setup can be complex - it's quite flexible in terms of configuration, but the person configuring it needs to understand the application side, the network side, and the server."
"Performance: Using the product, applications are jittery."
"Right now, they don't have multiple data centers. They have limited data centers. I am currently using the Singapore and Mumbai data centers, but I am looking for data centers in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. They need to improve the availability of their data centers and partnership engagements with cloud Panda solution providers, like us."
"Our primary concern is always the latency."
"They could have more international servers. There are certain places throughout Europe and Eastern Europe which are very open to doing a lot of technology business, such as Romania. Romania is very open to technology. At other service providers, I have stuff in Romania. I think there are some Eastern European locations that would be more open to it. So, if they could have more European points of presence, that would be more helpful."
"The network between different servers isn't very good. I have to install additional solutions to link the servers with each other."
"It would be nice if they had more data centers in Latin America."
"They recently changed the web interface and although the older one did not look as good, the new one is less responsive."
"It would be helpful if they offered a service where they handle the Linux security."
"I don't know how all of their services work, but my understanding is that they're not offering the entry-level machine for someone who just wants to own their own web page."
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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews while Linode is ranked 6th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 27 reviews. F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2, while Linode is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) writes "Reduces maintenance downtime and has a strong user community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Linode writes "Straightforward to set up, helpful support, and the Object Storage is useful for system backups". F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus and A10 Networks Thunder ADC, whereas Linode is most compared with Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Cloudflare and Google Kubernetes Engine.
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