We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiADC and Fortinet FortiWeb based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."The GSLB, the DR side, is the best part. Because we had our main side in one city, we created another, and we had a complete MPLS over the internet. We used the GSLB and data loss for our business applications."
"The solution provides high-level services such as availability, redundancy, and load balancing between servers."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL offloading capacity."
"Key features include SSL Offloading, VM availability, and L7 load balancing."
"I am impressed with the product's load-balancing feature."
"From a technical perspective, it is the most scalable device from Fortinet."
"The main feature that we use is GSLB (Global Server Load Balancing). GSLB makes the customer's network more reliable by scaling applications across multiple datacenters. GSLB as a disaster recovery solution can direct traffic based on site availability."
"The product has flexible and interesting licensing options."
"Other than the additional security with exploit protection, we have simpler certificate handling, as we can keep internal servers using internal certificates continuously distributed and updated by Active Directory Group Policy, while the public certificates become updated only in a single place, FortiWeb itself."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiWeb is the reports and the AI-based features."
"FortiWeb provides the level of security we need at an excellent price point. It's easy to deploy and operationally efficient."
"We find that it is quite stable and reliable."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiWeb is the ease of integration and configuration."
"It is easy to install and to maintain."
"FortiGate is a stable product."
"It is a good product. We have just blocked everything coming from some geographical locations or certain countries, and it has been working very efficiently when I look at logs, events, and incidents generated from the system. It is generating very good analytic reports about it. This is the most valuable thing about this solution. It has load balancing and almost everything that a web application firewall needs. It is very flexible and easy to learn and configure. It can be easily learned and configured by using the information available on different channels such as YouTube."
"It would be good if they built in a fully functional web application firewall."
"I had a terrible experience with Fortinet support. I only used support once when I bought the solution. I got no response for two days. However, I believe that it's no longer the case. Fortinet solutions have problems when they're launched. For example, we had issues with Fortinet's authenticator when it came out. We also had trouble with FortiNAC in the beginning."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"Fortinet FortiADC should include an advanced-level SD-WAN."
"The product's stability for VMs could be better."
"Fortinet has some drawbacks, and it can be a bit challenging to scale."
"The L7 Persistent load-balancing algorithm has not worked for me after having tested it many times with my customer's in-house application. I'd like to suggest that the company make sure that all load-balancing algorithms work properly with most applications, even those that are in-house apps."
"There is a mismatch between the number of features they are offering and the device capacity on how much it can handle."
"Another area for improvement is logging. When troubleshooting, the logs sometimes take a while to update. We've had people report that some things aren't logged if they're successful. It's a bit hit-and-miss. For example, sometimes people access one of our services, and it's successful, but we don't see that in the logs."
"The solution is not very scalable, to scale up would require another deployment with a new appliance and a change to the network."
"New releases and old releases have some bugs, some features do not work as good as we want but every new release the Fortinet team fixes up problems."
"The solution could have more customization."
"It is not entirely user-friendly."
"FortiWeb needs to have support for the newest technology being used in web applications."
"We would like to know more about the integration with the hardware or security products, such as Gemalto, because we need to move to that point."
"Lacks a VM demo to enable testing prior to purchase."
Fortinet FortiADC is ranked 8th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 19 reviews while Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews. Fortinet FortiADC is rated 7.8, while Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiADC writes "High-level load balancing and routing protocols but scalability is limited to 200 gigabits". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiWeb writes "Cost-effective, easy to configure, and works very well as a single solution for multiple environments". Fortinet FortiADC is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Citrix NetScaler, Kemp LoadMaster, A10 Networks Thunder ADC and Loadbalancer.org, whereas Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall, Imperva Web Application Firewall and Cloudflare Web Application Firewall.
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