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."It is a scalable solution."
"There is a lot of documentation available."
"We are using Application Security Manager (ASM) as a web application firewall, where there is a security signature to avoid a web level breach."
"The most valuable feature I found is iRules."
"We are fond of the load balancing feature for DNS and servers."
"The product is quite flexible."
"LTM."
"The most valuable features are the WAF and the big IP."
"When you use NGINX, you have more options and power."
"Valuable features include authentication, caching, reverse proxy routing, and load balancing."
"I need to highlight that the number one thing about NGINX is that it is free."
"Its versatility and capabilities make it invaluable for implementing patches and fixes when necessary."
"The product is lightweight and fast."
"It performs very well. That's one of the primary reasons we use NGINX."
"NGINX Plus' most valuable feature is the ingress controller."
"Nginx is extremely efficient in terms of the connection rate to the CPU cycles ratio, and in terms of the bandwidth to CPU cycles."
"The cost of the solution is pretty high. It would be ideal if it was more reasonable."
"For a future release, I would like to see more features in the cloud."
"The GUI needs improvement."
"While the licensing is good through the AWS Marketplace, it is more expensive than what you could buy yourself."
"Implementing whitepapers with a lot more applications could easily be added."
"There is room for improvement in the user interface."
"F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager is expensive. Pricing needs to be improved."
"The user experience for dashboards and reports can be improved. They should make dashboards and the reporting system easier for users. They need to add more reports to the dashboard. Currently, for complicated reports, I have to do the customization. It should have more integration with network firewalls to be able to gather all the information required for traffic management."
"Lack of a feature to print data on the terminal for verification of network traffic during debugging and testing."
"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 user interface could be improved."
"Our most challenging part was to run an older PHP website reverse-proxied through NGINX. That was not fun."
"It would be great if there was even more automation to make it even easier to maintain."
"They should do in the open source version of what they did to Advanced HTTP, TCP, and UDP load balancing."
"NGINX is a very basic load balancer and cannot do as many customizations as F5."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model."
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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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