We performed a comparison between Barracuda Load Balancer ADC 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."Barracuda's technical support is good - whenever we have an issue, they immediately connect and resolve it."
"The price is very good, and it's not very expensive."
"Valuable features include authentication, caching, reverse proxy routing, and load balancing."
"The product is lightweight and fast."
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"It performs very well. That's one of the primary reasons we use NGINX."
"NGINX Plus also has NGINX App Protect. It's a separate module, which is inspired by the F5 apps."
"The best solution, by far, for web traffic control for things in production and just around the house."
"I think installation only took a couple of minutes — no more than 10 minutes."
"The most valuable features are the gateway and the ability to publish to sites."
"The quality of the solution's performance could be improved."
"Load Balancer ADC is competitively priced, but it's not feature-rich, and its technology is not that advanced."
"If NGINX brings some features for health check in the open source version, it would be better. "
"The solution must improve its performance."
"NGINX Plus is moderately priced, but it could give better value for money."
"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 user interface could be improved."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model."
"Our most challenging part was to run an older PHP website reverse-proxied through NGINX. That was not fun."
Barracuda Load Balancer ADC is ranked 14th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 3 reviews while NGINX Plus is ranked 5th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 28 reviews. Barracuda Load Balancer ADC is rated 7.4, while NGINX Plus is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Barracuda Load Balancer ADC writes "Cost-effective but lacking features and integration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". Barracuda Load Balancer ADC is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Fortinet FortiADC, Citrix NetScaler, Kemp LoadMaster and HAProxy, whereas NGINX Plus is most compared with IIS, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Apache Web Server. See our Barracuda Load Balancer ADC vs. NGINX Plus report.
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