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."Initial setup is easy and pretty standard."
"We always use technical support and the team helps us very well. They're able to effectively find and fix issues and they respond very quickly."
"The combination of ADC and WAN is good."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Where we are finding the AWS version helpful is when we are trying to scale up new environments. AWS Marketplace helps here a lot."
"The solution could improve the ease of use, the management could be simplified. Other solutions are easier to use."
"The iRule feature is very useful for inspecting HTTP. Sometimes, we use it for modifying the headers of the HTTP."
"LTM."
"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."
"I think installation only took a couple of minutes — no more than 10 minutes."
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"Valuable features include authentication, caching, reverse proxy routing, and load balancing."
"Using NGINX Plus for web traffic distribution is fantastic. It offers performance similar to physical load balancers but with added flexibility."
"NGINX Plus' most valuable feature is the ingress controller."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is simple to configure."
"The flexibility of its modules allow it to be scalable."
"Technical support could be faster. It's something I'd like to see them work on in the future."
"The synchronization does works fairly well. However, if I were to make changes, I would make it easier to start the sync process."
"Fixing bugs."
"An expensive solution for the minimal features we use."
"The solution's initial setup process was quite complex. I"
"The license terms for "non-commercial" will are challenging for us."
"I think the logging could be improved."
"The solution's hardware quality needs improvement."
"They should do in the open source version of what they did to Advanced HTTP, TCP, and UDP load balancing."
"I would suggest adding GUI-based configuration panels to NGINX Plus to simplify setup and management tasks."
"It would be good if NGINX provided a graphical user interface."
"NGINX Plus is moderately priced, but it could give better value for money."
"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 drawback is that you must obtain a license for everything."
"Lack of a feature to print data on the terminal for verification of network traffic during debugging and testing."
"The user interface could be improved."
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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 "Reduces maintenance downtime and has a strong user community". 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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