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."The feature that allows us to easily disconnect a server when we need and bring back online is the most valuable. It's a click of a button. This allows us to keep all systems up. We can then run updates, perform reboots whatever we need to one of the servers without taking production down."
"Edge Security Pack is valuable because of the way it separates between critical infrastructure and the public internet."
"The configuration is really easy and the web portal is self-explanatory."
"The security features are the most valuable features of this solution."
"There is a simplicity to the setup and configuration."
"Mitigates content security policy issues."
"From my personal experience, many firewalls provide Load Balancing functionalities, but Kemp Loadmaster has a lot of features and functionalities like what you can configure. So there are a lot of features but we use only five percent of it."
"The Global WAF has saved us more than one time from unwanted traffic."
"The web proxy and the database proxy are excellent."
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"NGINX works much better than HAProxy in our current hardware and architecture for HTTP/HTTPS load balancing. "
"With NGINX, I appreciate its ability to route traffic geographically."
"Nginx is simple to configure, very stable in a highly utilized environment and very modular, allowing DevOps to create it's own modules for interactive use with Nginx."
"The best solution, by far, for web traffic control for things in production and just around the house."
"NGINX Plus' most valuable feature is the ingress controller."
"This solution has everything."
"It would be helpful if there were a way to incorporate tooltips on the fields so that we don't have to dig through documentation."
"Overall, the Kemp LoadMaster has been an all-rounder great product and stable. The free trial and virtual edition make it a breeze for any potential customer to give it a spin before actually deciding to put it on the infrastructure or even talk to the CFO."
"Over the last several major versions, the GUI has remained virtually unchanged and still seems lacking."
"I want Kemp LoadMaster to provide users with better reporting capabilities in relation to TCP packets. In general, the connections that are present in the system require improvement."
"The only thing that I miss is that the TMG server was giving me live information about who is connected and what is the request about."
"Third, the password history restriction needs improvement. For example, the password policy will restrict the user to always use a unique password combination. The password should not be reused for a minimum of three generations of passwords."
"Hardware version needs a dual power solution."
"Some of the support documentation seems to make assumptions that the person installing or configuring is experienced with the product or concepts."
"The center management system could be improved."
"The user interface could be improved."
"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."
"If NGINX brings some features for health check in the open source version, it would be better. "
"Our most challenging part was to run an older PHP website reverse-proxied through NGINX. That was not fun."
"I would like to see the Grafana integration in NGINX which is already present in HAProxy. Grafana integration will help the solution visualize all the data analytics on the dashboard which is currently not present."
"Improvement needed in NGINX Plus could focus on optimizing memory usage for users."
"The biggest room for improvement would be to allow NGINX Core machines to cluster for memory zones in some way with a plug and play module. "
Kemp LoadMaster is ranked 6th 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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