We performed a comparison between Kemp LoadMaster 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 most valuable features for us are the Load Balancing and Web Application Firewall, as we have a lot of web applications."
"The security features, load balancing, built-in templates, and the easy to implement virtual IPs are great."
"The old process of manually having to redirect Outlook Web Access traffic and Email traffic to a second server is a thing of the past."
"With Kemp 360 Central, our customers get a nice overview of their Kemp products and an easy way to upgrade firmware on all devices from a single interface."
"It has been functional. We don't have any outages."
"The solution is easy to configure when changing the load balancing method to Round Robin or least connection."
"It has greatly fortified the performance and uptime of our front-door email ingress, simplified and segmented mail routing, and reduced admin overhead for mail issue resolution and troubleshooting."
"Load-balancing is a great feature that is very easy to configure and it is always working fine."
"With NGINX, I appreciate its ability to route traffic geographically."
"Nginx is extremely efficient in terms of the connection rate to the CPU cycles ratio, and in terms of the bandwidth to CPU cycles."
"It performs very well. That's one of the primary reasons we use NGINX."
"The product is resilient."
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"The robust software architecture allows for it to be scalable and very stable."
"Using NGINX Plus for web traffic distribution is fantastic. It offers performance similar to physical load balancers but with added flexibility."
"I think installation only took a couple of minutes — no more than 10 minutes."
"In the web interface, there are a lot of settings in the different menus and it would be helpful if there were an interactive help system or tooltips to help the administrators find and configure the right settings."
"It lacks an officially supported, well-written SCOM Management Pack."
"I definitely think that the WAF can be improved."
"Hardware version needs a dual power solution."
"It has all types of logs and they are very detailed, but it's a little bit hard to search for a single event."
"The cost of the GEO upgrade is not cost-prohibitive but it's something that would be a nice add-in, out of the box."
"UI is very basic and unattractive."
"It would be nice if the historical metrics were easily exportable from the interface."
"If NGINX brings some features for health check in the open source version, it would be better. "
"Lack of a feature to print data on the terminal for verification of network traffic during debugging and testing."
"The scaling should be built into the software rather than configured from an outside source."
"The KPI should be more focused on load balancing and the latency in application calling from the end system."
"The drawback is that you must obtain a license for everything."
"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."
"The scalability could be improved."
"The user interface could be improved."
Kemp LoadMaster is ranked 6th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 48 reviews while NGINX Plus is ranked 5th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 28 reviews. Kemp LoadMaster is rated 9.4, while NGINX Plus is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Kemp LoadMaster writes "Reliable, easy to set up, and can increase your security score". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". Kemp LoadMaster is most compared with HAProxy, Fortinet FortiADC, Citrix NetScaler, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and A10 Networks Thunder ADC, whereas NGINX Plus is most compared with IIS, HAProxy, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Apache Web Server and Citrix NetScaler. See our Kemp LoadMaster vs. NGINX Plus report.
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