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."Its most valuable features are load balancing and application delivery. This is the most efficient application for these features because of stability and its efficiency."
"Nginx is extremely efficient in terms of the connection rate to the CPU cycles ratio, and in terms of the bandwidth to CPU cycles."
"The best solution, by far, for web traffic control for things in production and just around the house."
"This solution has everything."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is simple to configure."
"I think installation only took a couple of minutes — no more than 10 minutes."
"When you use NGINX, you have more options and power."
"Valuable features include authentication, caching, reverse proxy routing, and load balancing."
"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."
"Radware has been characterized by being extremely robust. This gives us the confidence to offer our users a continuous service."
"I like the concept of self-service, that I can do everything on my own."
"The GUI was a valuable feature. It was uncomplicated and easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is the load-balancing reverse proxy."
"Security is one of the most valuable features that I like. It is easy to use and easy to configure."
"I am finding SSL-TLS acceleration the most valuable function, with certificate management. It is easy to generate certificates and assign them to services"
"With Alteon, the load-balancing options are practically unlimited. We haven't had any issues with offloading, decryption, putting in cookies, or any other load-balancing features. We can check URLs, etc., on the back end for load balancing instead of running a TCP check. We're also doing some certificate stuff on there. Alteon covers all of the standard load-balancing techniques, and we employ most of them daily."
"The center management system could be improved."
"I would suggest adding GUI-based configuration panels to NGINX Plus to simplify setup and management tasks."
"The scaling should be built into the software rather than configured from an outside source."
"The biggest room for improvement would be to allow NGINX Core machines to cluster for memory zones in some way with a plug and play module. "
"The solution must improve its performance."
"Improvement needed in NGINX Plus could focus on optimizing memory usage for users."
"They should do in the open source version of what they did to Advanced HTTP, TCP, and UDP load balancing."
"The solution needs to be easier to setup and deploy."
"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."
"Support is very important because if we get good support, we'll be able to sell and supply more numbers."
"Radware Alteon could improve the troubleshooting from the command line interface, they could do a better job making it easier."
"The community portal does not have a place to find scripts."
"The GUI needs to be improved. Right now, the solution isn't so user-friendly."
"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."
"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 having a difficult time with the security module, and how to implement the Radware security."
NGINX Plus is ranked 5th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 28 reviews while Radware Alteon is ranked 7th 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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