We performed a comparison between Citrix NetScaler 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."Citrix Netscaler makes it easy to provide services to end users, offering better visibility into user sessions compared to VMware. However, instability in network or machine can cause headaches as it's hard to pinpoint issues. SSL offload feature enhances security posture by providing secure connectivity between end users and backend systems. We use additional Azure remote security solutions for comprehensive protection."
"Global load balancing between data centers."
"Most of the functions are user-friendly and great."
"The load balancing feature and the fact that you can do context switching in the WAF are the most valuable. We majorly use it for load balancing, but we also use it for context switching in the WAF. It is also robust and very easy to work with and manage."
"The load balancing is one of the most valuable features."
"It is a very stable solution."
"Unified Gateway allows me to provide secure external access to applications for suppliers and customers while requiring Multi-Factor Authentication."
"The load balancing and VPN features are most valuable. AAA authentication is also valuable."
"NGINX Plus also has NGINX App Protect. It's a separate module, which is inspired by the F5 apps."
"The product is lightweight and fast."
"Valuable features include authentication, caching, reverse proxy routing, and load balancing."
"When I worked in a security research center, we tested NGINX to support DoS and DDoS attacks, and its results were great."
"The best solution, by far, for web traffic control for things in production and just around the house."
"NGINX works much better than HAProxy in our current hardware and architecture for HTTP/HTTPS load balancing. "
"The most valuable features are the gateway and the ability to publish to sites."
"Supports IMAP, POP and SMTP protocols for the reverse proxy."
"I would like to see multifactor authentication added to this solution to improve the security."
"Maybe creating policies with simple regular expressions."
"The solution could be more secure."
"Technical support sometimes takes a little longer because of the multilevel ticket priority."
"There are some features which are missing."
"There is room for improvement regarding the pricing policy for Citrix offices."
"Technical support could be improved."
"It does not have a sandbox cloud service and antivirus. It should have on-prem or cloud sandboxing and antivirus."
"It would be good if NGINX provided a graphical user interface."
"NGINX is a very basic load balancer and cannot do as many customizations as F5."
"Improvement needed in NGINX Plus could focus on optimizing memory usage for users."
"It would be great if there was even more automation to make it even easier to maintain."
"The scaling should be built into the software rather than configured from an outside source."
"The KPI should be more focused on load balancing and the latency in application calling from the end system."
"Our most challenging part was to run an older PHP website reverse-proxied through NGINX. That was not fun."
"Lack of a feature to print data on the terminal for verification of network traffic during debugging and testing."
Citrix NetScaler is ranked 2nd in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 85 reviews while NGINX Plus is ranked 5th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 28 reviews. Citrix NetScaler is rated 8.4, while NGINX Plus is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Citrix NetScaler writes "Optimizing application delivery and ensuring robust network performance with its excellent stability and comprehensive load-balancing capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". Citrix NetScaler is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Fortinet FortiADC, HAProxy and Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, whereas NGINX Plus is most compared with IIS, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Microsoft Azure Application Gateway. See our Citrix NetScaler vs. NGINX Plus report.
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