We performed a comparison between Akamai Ion and NGINX Plus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."Akamai is easy to use and very effective."
"When I worked in a security research center, we tested NGINX to support DoS and DDoS attacks, and its results were great."
"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."
"The web proxy and the database proxy are excellent."
"The best solution, by far, for web traffic control for things in production and just around the house."
"Application Gateway with application-level firewall tool and load distributor and balancer (also serves for A/B testing)."
"The flexibility of its modules allow it to be scalable."
"Supports IMAP, POP and SMTP protocols for the reverse proxy."
"Its versatility and capabilities make it invaluable for implementing patches and fixes when necessary."
"The product must provide more flexibility."
"The user interface could be improved."
"I would like it to have a more user-friendly graphical interface."
"The scaling should be built into the software rather than configured from an outside source."
"It would be great if there was even more automation to make it even easier to maintain."
"I would like the configuration process to be more simplified."
"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."
"Improvement needed in NGINX Plus could focus on optimizing memory usage for users."
"The solution needs to be easier to setup and deploy."
Akamai Ion is ranked 15th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 1 review while NGINX Plus is ranked 5th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 28 reviews. Akamai Ion is rated 7.0, while NGINX Plus is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Akamai Ion writes "Helps optimize the content delivery network, but doesn’t provide much flexibility". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". Akamai Ion is most compared with , whereas NGINX Plus is most compared with IIS, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Apache Web Server.
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