We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Linode based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."It helps us recognize sessions from certain IPs that are authorized to manage the application. This is a function we haven't found anywhere else."
"We have multiple solutions we can deploy through the F5."
"The value and impact of using F5 BIG-IP LTM for application delivery control in our organization are significant."
"Initial setup was straightforward. We were up and running in three hours."
"It is a fast and available solution."
"It integrates with AWS WAF, which makes it easy to deploy without changes to your infrastructure."
"The solution's stability is pretty good."
"The BIG-IP’s interface is more intuitive than other GUIs. It is well structured, not overloaded, and does not have too many gimmicks."
"Generally speaking, I have not found any faults using Linode. For what we wanted, they provided a complete solution."
"It has helped to minimize the risk and scale services at large in virtually no time."
"The solution integrates easily."
"Linode offers cost-effective pricing, and it enables me to swiftly deploy my services."
"The most valuable features are the simple scalability and ease of starting a new virtual machine."
"The ability to fire up a virtual machine, use it, and then kill it, is quite a valuable feature for me."
"I very much like the support that you get, and I think that it's excellent."
"Because of the way that their pricing model is set up, I can scale up or down the size of a customer's server very easily. It makes life very easy for me when they run out of space, need more speed or RAM, etc. I can very easily pay the difference and reboot the machine, and now I have the upgrade that I wanted. That just makes it extremely simple."
"Performance: Using the product, applications are jittery."
"The user interface could be improved in F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager."
"F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager is expensive. Pricing needs to be improved."
"F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager is sometimes a bit cumbersome to deal with some builds, although that's gotten significantly better over the years."
"Right now, there are a lot of products within F5's portfolio. They acquired a couple of companies like NGINX and Volterra. Some features and technologies overlapped when this acquisition occurred. They need to refine it and come up with a single, proper solution. F5 should focus more on zero trust network access (ZTNA).They should be more focused on that framework because the industry is moving towards that. Everyone is talking about SASE and zero trust."
"Native support for containers should be added to future releases, as this is the future of load balancing."
"It requires a particular skill or training before being able to manage it."
"Improvements should enable customers to build a tailor-made solution in the future through a service portal."
"They are already working on the firewalls and VLANs, which need improvement, and are now in beta. I am on the beta program for the firewalls, but I can't use it yet because they are only in Mumbai and Australia, and I am not in those data centres. This is the one thing that I have been waiting for almost since the day that I joined them, so it is nice that they are doing that. The VLANs will be an improvement as well, and I am keen and waiting for that."
"They recently changed the web interface and although the older one did not look as good, the new one is less responsive."
"When it comes to marketing and exposure, Linode needs improvement because I just randomly found them by looking for Linux solutions."
"Before they changed the dashboard, I found some of the more granular options easier to find."
"I've had some difficulties with some of their IP addresses being banned by certain mail servers."
"It would be helpful if they provided the additional Linux distributions that I prefer using. But there is still a workaround. I can do it without direct support. It's a bit more complicated, but it can still be done."
"Its cost can be improved."
"There is room for improvement regarding customer support."
More F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) Pricing and Cost Advice →
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews while Linode is ranked 6th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 27 reviews. F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2, while Linode is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) writes "Reduces maintenance downtime and has a strong user community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Linode writes "Straightforward to set up, helpful support, and the Object Storage is useful for system backups". F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus and A10 Networks Thunder ADC, whereas Linode is most compared with Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Cloudflare and Google Kubernetes Engine.
We monitor all Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.
