Azure Application Gateway is a web traffic load balancer that enables you to manage traffic to your web applications. Traditional load balancers operate at the transport layer (OSI layer 4 - TCP and UDP) and route traffic based on source IP address and port, to a destination IP address and port.
It is not expensive.
Every solution comes with a license and cost. Microsoft provides the license and the total cost is for the maintenance every year.
It is not expensive.
Every solution comes with a license and cost. Microsoft provides the license and the total cost is for the maintenance every year.
NGINX Plus is a versatile solution that offers load balancing, caching, proxying, and API deployment capabilities. It can be deployed on private or public clouds and is ideal for building CDN solutions. The solution can also be used to secure web applications and replace web services like Apache.
Nginx is free. I don't have experience with the Plus version.
I am not so happy with their pricing policy, but this is not the worse thing in my life. I can tolerate it.
Nginx is free. I don't have experience with the Plus version.
I am not so happy with their pricing policy, but this is not the worse thing in my life. I can tolerate it.
HAProxy is considered by many in the industry to be one of the fastest and most popular and trusted software load balancer products in the marketplace today. Organizations are able to immediately deploy HAProxy solutions to enable websites and applications to optimize performance, security, and observability. HAProxy solutions are available to scale to any environment.
HAProxy is free software. There are optional paid products (support/appliances).
I think that the pricing is very fair, I would definitely recommend buying the Enterprise license.
HAProxy is free software. There are optional paid products (support/appliances).
I think that the pricing is very fair, I would definitely recommend buying the Enterprise license.
Citrix NetScaler is an application delivery controller (ADC) and load-balancing solution for multi-cloud environments. Because its software and hardware form factors are all built on a single code base, Citrix NetScaler provides operational and feature consistency with comprehensive security for monolithic and microservices-based applications on-premises and in the cloud. The solution is designed to optimize, manage, and secure network traffic. Switching features, security and protection features, and network integration efficiency capabilities are all part of its feature set.
It's not for startups or SOHO.
Costly product and complicated licensing.
It's not for startups or SOHO.
Costly product and complicated licensing.
Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall delivers scalable application security for off-the-shelf and custom applications, including third-party frameworks. Apply business rules to online traffic, inspect and block attacks such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS), and filter outgoing traffic and data to mask credit card data. Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall helps achieve compliance with PCI-DSS requirements.
