We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiADC and Fortinet FortiDDoS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."The product has flexible and interesting licensing options."
"I like the solution's load balance with DNS intelligence."
"TSL and SSL offloading are both very good features."
"Key features include SSL Offloading, VM availability, and L7 load balancing."
"Simple to use and easy to integrate."
"Content caching and content compression are good features."
"The solution provides high-level services such as availability, redundancy, and load balancing between servers."
"The main feature that we use is GSLB (Global Server Load Balancing). GSLB makes the customer's network more reliable by scaling applications across multiple datacenters. GSLB as a disaster recovery solution can direct traffic based on site availability."
"We have researched them all, and it's a good solution all around."
"This solution can protect Layer 3, Layer 4 and Layer 7 attacks of applications for us."
"I find the interface easy to use."
"The solution is very user-friendly and very easy to use."
"The product allows the users to adjust the thresholds."
"The solution already has security profiles and it can protect from DDoS attacks and other kinds of attacks."
"The product's initial setup phase was really easy."
"It is a user-friendly product in terms of monitoring and updating policies."
"The L7 Persistent load-balancing algorithm has not worked for me after having tested it many times with my customer's in-house application. I'd like to suggest that the company make sure that all load-balancing algorithms work properly with most applications, even those that are in-house apps."
"The product's stability for VMs could be better."
"I think it would be helpful if Fortinet put more video examples on their cookbook site."
"Because it is so generic, the documentation requires special attention. A person who has not worked on Fortinet FortiADC or a similar product will struggle to understand what the document is trying to say. The documentation could be more specific, and more detailed."
"The product’s price could be reduced. Also, some of its features need to be more advanced."
"Fortinet has some drawbacks, and it can be a bit challenging to scale."
"Setup could be easier. The company's homework is to redesign those menus to configure with the smallest number of steps."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"The primary area for improvement is the on-premises capacity limit, currently fixed at 10 GB."
"I find that there have been issues in the past year with the solution hanging. It freezes often."
"The product’s pricing needs improvement."
"There aren't really any aspects of the solution we are unhappy with. It's been a positive experience overall."
"The solution can be a little more user-friendly and it can be more affordable."
"All the thresholds that need to be configured should be included in the default so that user will not forget or misconfigure."
"The web interface could be much better."
"Alerts and reporting features must be improved."
Fortinet FortiADC is ranked 8th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 19 reviews while Fortinet FortiDDoS is ranked 16th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 12 reviews. Fortinet FortiADC is rated 7.8, while Fortinet FortiDDoS is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiADC writes "High-level load balancing and routing protocols but scalability is limited to 200 gigabits". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiDDoS writes "Offers good technical support but has poor scalability". Fortinet FortiADC is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Fortinet FortiWeb, Citrix NetScaler, Kemp LoadMaster and A10 Networks Thunder ADC, whereas Fortinet FortiDDoS is most compared with Arbor DDoS, Radware DefensePro, VMware NSX, Fortinet FortiWeb and Imperva DDoS.
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