We performed a comparison between Kemp LoadMaster 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."LoadMaster is easy to deploy and understand."
"Simple to install with good documentation."
"The security features, load balancing, built-in templates, and the easy to implement virtual IPs are great."
"The most valuable features for us are the Load Balancing and Web Application Firewall, as we have a lot of web applications."
"Mitigates content security policy issues."
"The security features are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The pricing of the solution is valuable."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten...I rate the technical support a ten out of ten...The initial setup of Kemp LoadMaster is very simple."
"It's lightweight software that can handle heavy loads efficiently."
"Supports IMAP, POP and SMTP protocols for the reverse proxy."
"I need to highlight that the number one thing about NGINX is that it is free."
"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."
"With NGINX, I appreciate its ability to route traffic geographically."
"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 is extremely efficient in terms of the connection rate to the CPU cycles ratio, and in terms of the bandwidth to CPU cycles."
"UI is very basic and unattractive."
"Certificate installations could be simplified and modernized, and allowed to be monitored for expirations/issues."
"I definitely think that the WAF can be improved."
"In the next release, Kemp should include the ability for LoadMaster to create different DNS record types."
"It has all types of logs and they are very detailed, but it's a little bit hard to search for a single event."
"They were still in the process of development, and for example, we set it up in a cluster. So it was one logistical unit built out of two physical devices. And the expected behavior, which I know from other devices, will be formed into a logic cluster. It's that you configure one unit. Then you bring the second unit into this cluster with the already configured primary unit. So the secondary box pulls all the configured ones from its neighbor, does everything automatically, and then synchronizes with this primary neighbor. And then it works, like, one logical unit. And this didn't work with the Kemp's initially, where they caused a lot of issues when building up a cluster, so there were some specials on how to set this up. When we built or set them up for the first time and the months afterward with no new software releases, there were a couple of problems, but in the end, they worked fine. So, they developed a lot and learned from what they've responded to, what we responded to them, and what needs fixing."
"If you want logging for SMTP traffic, you have to enable ESP, which requires you to define allowed IP addresses. That’s irritating, to say the least."
"I really don't like the way the logs are presented in the software."
"I would like the configuration process to be more simplified."
"The solution must improve its performance."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model."
"The scalability could be improved."
"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."
Kemp LoadMaster is ranked 7th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 48 reviews while NGINX Plus is ranked 5th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 28 reviews. Kemp LoadMaster is rated 9.4, while NGINX Plus is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Kemp LoadMaster writes "Reliable, easy to set up, and can increase your security score". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". Kemp LoadMaster is most compared with HAProxy, Fortinet FortiADC, Citrix NetScaler, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and A10 Networks Thunder ADC, whereas NGINX Plus is most compared with IIS, HAProxy, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Apache Web Server and Citrix NetScaler. See our Kemp LoadMaster vs. NGINX Plus report.
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