We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) 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 solution could improve the ease of use, the management could be simplified. Other solutions are easier to use."
"The combination of ADC and WAN is the most valuable feature."
"The tech support we got from F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager directly was pretty good."
"We have found the consistency of the application always being the way it is supposed to be as its most valuable feature."
"It is an easy way to build application policies (graphical)."
"We plan to create packages of services from which it will be possible to build comprehensive tailor-made solutions."
"I've worked a little bit with iRules and it is amazing."
"It improves the overall performance of applications by decreasing the burden on servers associated with managing and maintaining applications and network sessions, as well as by performing application-specific tasks."
"The best solution, by far, for web traffic control for things in production and just around the house."
"When I worked in a security research center, we tested NGINX to support DoS and DDoS attacks, and its results were great."
"Zero Downtime has always been a strength in recommending infrastructure web services. NGINX allows me to execute such infrastructure with less complications and the ability to switch from server to server easily."
"The most valuable features are the gateway and the ability to publish to sites."
"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."
"NGINX Plus also has NGINX App Protect. It's a separate module, which is inspired by the F5 apps."
"Using NGINX Plus for web traffic distribution is fantastic. It offers performance similar to physical load balancers but with added flexibility."
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"The price for F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager is very high. This aspect could be improved."
"Technical support is somewhat slow and could be improved."
"Security enhancement should be more user friendly."
"I would like them to have more flexible models."
"Certificate management needs improvement. I would like automated deployment of new certificates without manual intervention to be in the next release of this product."
"The web interface could be better."
"Technical support could be faster. It's something I'd like to see them work on in the future."
"The analytics should provide insight into latency across various traffic routes and virtual servers."
"They should do in the open source version of what they did to Advanced HTTP, TCP, and UDP load balancing."
"It would be great if there was even more automation to make it even easier to maintain."
"The solution must improve its performance."
"I would like to see the Grafana integration in NGINX which is already present in HAProxy. Grafana integration will help the solution visualize all the data analytics on the dashboard which is currently not present."
"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."
"NGINX Plus is moderately priced, but it could give better value for money."
"The center management system could be improved."
"The KPI should be more focused on load balancing and the latency in application calling from the end system."
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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews while NGINX Plus is ranked 5th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 28 reviews. F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2, while NGINX Plus is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) writes "Helps deliver applications to users in a reliable, secure, and optimized way". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, A10 Networks Thunder ADC and HAProxy, whereas NGINX Plus is most compared with IIS, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster, Apache Web Server and Citrix NetScaler. See our F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) vs. NGINX Plus report.
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