We performed a comparison between Akamai Ion 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)."Akamai is easy to use and very effective."
"This solution has everything."
"It's lightweight software that can handle heavy loads efficiently."
"I think installation only took a couple of minutes — no more than 10 minutes."
"When you use NGINX, you have more options and power."
"The flexibility of its modules allow it to be scalable."
"The robust software architecture allows for it to be scalable and very stable."
"The load balancing module, which is equivalent to LTM, is the focus of the PSE. So far, the features of both are identical. I believe NGINX has more features for securing these services, but in terms of load balancing, both are massive solutions."
"The product is resilient."
"The product must provide more flexibility."
"I would like it to have a more user-friendly graphical interface."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model."
"The solution's GUI is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"I would like the configuration process to be more simplified."
"NGINX Plus is moderately priced, but it could give better value for money."
"The solution must improve its performance."
"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. "
"The scalability could be improved."
Akamai Ion is ranked 15th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 1 review while NGINX Plus is ranked 5th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 28 reviews. Akamai Ion is rated 7.0, while NGINX Plus is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Akamai Ion writes "Helps optimize the content delivery network, but doesn’t provide much flexibility". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". Akamai Ion is most compared with , 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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