We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiADC 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."Key features include SSL Offloading, VM availability, and L7 load balancing."
"Simple to use and easy to integrate."
"The most valuable feature is its simplicity."
"The solution provides high-level services such as availability, redundancy, and load balancing between servers."
"Although FortiADC has multiple features that I like, the global DNS is the most helpful. It is primarily useful for customers with huge environments and at least two data centers. FortiADC can act as your DNS server. It can check which data center has the lowest latency, and route traffic to that one. It's an intelligent DNS."
"TSL and SSL offloading are both very good features."
"Content caching and content compression are good features."
"The product has flexible and interesting licensing options."
"I need to highlight that the number one thing about NGINX is that it is free."
"Application Gateway with application-level firewall tool and load distributor and balancer (also serves for A/B testing)."
"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."
"This solution has everything."
"The web proxy and the database proxy are excellent."
"It performs very well. That's one of the primary reasons we use NGINX."
"The product is resilient."
"The most valuable features are the gateway and the ability to publish to sites."
"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 solution should improve finding false positives and false negatives. There are a lot of false positives."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"Fortinet FortiADC should include an advanced-level SD-WAN."
"The product’s price could be reduced. Also, some of its features need to be more advanced."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"The configuration is relatively complex."
"It would be good if they built in a fully functional web application firewall."
"I would like the configuration process to be more simplified."
"I would like it to have a more user-friendly graphical interface."
"The solution needs to be easier to setup and deploy."
"The scaling should be built into the software rather than configured from an outside source."
"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."
"The solution must improve its performance."
"I would like to see the Grafana integration in NGINX which is already present in HAProxy. Grafana integration will help the solution visualize all the data analytics on the dashboard which is currently not present."
"NGINX Plus is moderately priced, but it could give better value for money."
Fortinet FortiADC is ranked 8th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 19 reviews while NGINX Plus is ranked 5th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 28 reviews. Fortinet FortiADC is rated 7.8, while NGINX Plus is rated 8.8. 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 NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". Fortinet FortiADC is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Fortinet FortiWeb, Citrix NetScaler, Kemp LoadMaster and FortiGSLB, whereas NGINX Plus is most compared with IIS, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and A10 Networks Thunder ADC. See our Fortinet FortiADC vs. NGINX Plus report.
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