We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) 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 combination of ADC and WAN is the most valuable feature."
"We're able to do load balancing and global load balancing. When you marry those two products together, you can do a lot more. We're able to deliver our applications more securely and faster. It has improved our deliverability where we have more service across the shared data centers. We can intelligently reach all of those client connections across all of the servers and do it fairly quickly. It has helped improve our application delivery and performance."
"Routing and load balancing are its most valuable features."
"The solution has good load balancing capabilities."
"The capability is at a seven or eight out of ten."
"It integrates with AWS WAF, which makes it easy to deploy without changes to your infrastructure."
"It offers features Kemp doesn't provide. For example, there are predefined templates for handling Office 365. You can download them for automatic configuration."
"It is stable."
"The flexibility of its modules allow it to be scalable."
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"I find the solution’s community support and documentation most valuable. Compared to HAProxy, have found a lot of documentation and community support on Quora. If you would be asking me as a developer whether to choose this product, I would recommend this since it has good community support, documentation, and signature updates. The configuration of HAProxy is also very tedious. However, NGINX’s configuration is very simple."
"NGINX Plus also has NGINX App Protect. It's a separate module, which is inspired by the F5 apps."
"I need to highlight that the number one thing about NGINX is that it is free."
"NGINX works much better than HAProxy in our current hardware and architecture for HTTP/HTTPS load balancing. "
"When you use NGINX, you have more options and power."
"When I worked in a security research center, we tested NGINX to support DoS and DDoS attacks, and its results were great."
"Security enhancement should be more user friendly."
"The analytics should provide insight into latency across various traffic routes and virtual servers."
"The user interface could be improved in F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager."
"Not everything is intuitive."
"The pricing of the product is a bit too high."
"Bugs are the part of program and they are fixed with every release, as with any vendor."
"Initial setup is tricky, if you do not understand the design of this product."
"LTM's cloud capabilities could be improved. Cloud providers all offer load balancing, but you can't get the same level of security. F5's cloud service is still not on par with its on-prem service."
"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."
"Lack of a feature to print data on the terminal for verification of network traffic during debugging and testing."
"The scaling should be built into the software rather than configured from an outside source."
"NGINX Plus is moderately priced, but it could give better value for money."
"The KPI should be more focused on load balancing and the latency in application calling from the end system."
"The center management system could be improved."
"They should do in the open source version of what they did to Advanced HTTP, TCP, and UDP load balancing."
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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews while NGINX Plus is ranked 5th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 28 reviews. F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2, while NGINX Plus is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) writes "Helps deliver applications to users in a reliable, secure, and optimized way". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, A10 Networks Thunder ADC and HAProxy, whereas NGINX Plus is most compared with IIS, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster, Apache Web Server and Citrix NetScaler. See our F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) vs. NGINX Plus report.
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