We performed a comparison between Citrix Intelligent Traffic Management and NGINX Plus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."We use the HDX protocol, a high-performing component of the Citrix solutions. We also use provisioning to generate VM and NetScaler ADC solutions to propose access to applications for our customers."
"When I worked in a security research center, we tested NGINX to support DoS and DDoS attacks, and its results were great."
"The product is resilient."
"It's lightweight software that can handle heavy loads efficiently."
"NGINX works much better than HAProxy in our current hardware and architecture for HTTP/HTTPS load balancing. "
"Application Gateway with application-level firewall tool and load distributor and balancer (also serves for A/B testing)."
"The robust software architecture allows for it to be scalable and very stable."
"Zero Downtime has always been a strength in recommending infrastructure web services. NGINX allows me to execute such infrastructure with less complications and the ability to switch from server to server easily."
"Using NGINX Plus for web traffic distribution is fantastic. It offers performance similar to physical load balancers but with added flexibility."
"We discussed problems with the network products with the Indian teams. The support center for network products is located in India. There are language barriers and issues with the time difference, so we sometimes face restrictions when dealing with this team."
"The scaling should be built into the software rather than configured from an outside source."
"NGINX is a very basic load balancer and cannot do as many customizations as F5."
"I would like it to have a more user-friendly graphical interface."
"It would be good if NGINX provided a graphical user interface."
"The solution's GUI is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"I would like the configuration process to be more simplified."
"The scalability could be improved."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model."
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Citrix Intelligent Traffic Management is ranked 19th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) while NGINX Plus is ranked 5th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 28 reviews. Citrix Intelligent Traffic Management is rated 8.0, while NGINX Plus is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Citrix Intelligent Traffic Management writes "It's a robust and proven solution that we've been working with for many years". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". Citrix Intelligent Traffic Management is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, whereas NGINX Plus is most compared with IIS, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Apache Web Server.
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