We performed a comparison between Loadbalancer.org 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 user interface precludes need to be well versed with Linux IPVS command line. This make it easy for junior team members to participate in managing load balancing needs."
"Loadbalancer is easy to use. It performs well, with low latency."
"I found scalability in Loadbalancer.org valuable."
"We have about 30,000 connections going through at any one time and it's fine, it doesn't seem to sweat. It doesn't get overloaded."
"Loadbalancer.org is less complex than Citrix."
"Most important for us that it makes sure that the load is distributed and that we always have access to the end servers."
"The features I find valuable in this solution are the ease of managing the logs on the WAFs, the ease to identify break-in attempts into the network, the front-end firewall, and a more specific firewall."
"It's pretty much a Swiss Army knife for managing all the load balancing techniques."
"NGINX Plus also has NGINX App Protect. It's a separate module, which is inspired by the F5 apps."
"The best solution, by far, for web traffic control for things in production and just around the house."
"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."
"I need to highlight that the number one thing about NGINX is that it is free."
"Nginx is extremely efficient in terms of the connection rate to the CPU cycles ratio, and in terms of the bandwidth to CPU cycles."
"Application Gateway with application-level firewall tool and load distributor and balancer (also serves for A/B testing)."
"Supports IMAP, POP and SMTP protocols for the reverse proxy."
"The robust software architecture allows for it to be scalable and very stable."
"The interface from Loadbalancer.org should be improved."
"The configuration is somewhat complicated. Someone who does not know the solution may find this challenging."
"They're mostly designed to balance a particular type of traffic. I wanted to load balance DNS, and they just don't do it the way that we wanted to. So they're not used as DNS load balancers."
"I would like it if Loadbalancer had the ability to make rules for specific shared bots."
"Originally we had some stability issues with it, so they replaced it with a new box and it's fine."
"Possibly a more graphical overview page (with colors) to give a two second overview to see if everything is working fine."
"The automatic refresh of the System Overview webpage: It sometimes has an extra webpage reload (after a change) before you see it is executed. This can be confusing."
"It would be great if there was a way to gain access to the graphing data, to create custom reports. If we had a way to use the graphing data, we could use it to present certain information to our client, such as the uptime status for their service."
"NGINX Plus is moderately priced, but it could give better value for money."
"They should do in the open source version of what they did to Advanced HTTP, TCP, and UDP load balancing."
"Lack of a feature to print data on the terminal for verification of network traffic during debugging and testing."
"Make modules easier to enable or disable. The beauty and ugly side of the NGINX modules is you have to know how to compile the module. For beginners or non-very technical aspirant(s) going for NGINX, they have to learn how to compile the modules."
"Improvement needed in NGINX Plus could focus on optimizing memory usage for users."
"The user interface could be improved."
"I would like it to have a more user-friendly graphical interface."
"Only improvement needed that I would point to is scalability. With it, I mean clusterized organisation on a low level. At the moment, the best alternative is RHEL HA."
Loadbalancer.org is ranked 10th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 22 reviews while NGINX Plus is ranked 5th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 28 reviews. Loadbalancer.org is rated 8.8, while NGINX Plus is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Loadbalancer.org writes "Great WAF - low-maintenance solution that performs as advertised ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". Loadbalancer.org is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, HAProxy, Fortinet FortiADC, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and A10 Networks Thunder ADC, whereas NGINX Plus is most compared with IIS, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and IBM WebSphere Application Server. See our Loadbalancer.org vs. NGINX Plus report.
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