We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Loadbalancer.org, 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)."We are fond of the load balancing feature for DNS and servers."
"iRules are very valuable. In addition to that, the way profiles are depicted by the LTM is also very good."
"We like is how they integrate nicely with the Oracle PeopleSoft application."
"The most valuable feature is being able to manipulate the iRules, so you can send traffic to different avenues."
"It integrates with AWS WAF, which makes it easy to deploy without changes to your infrastructure."
"In terms of stability, it is stable."
"The feature I find the most valuable is the support infrastructure."
"The capability is at a seven or eight out of ten."
"Loadbalancer.org is less complex than Citrix."
"With basic network knowledge, our required system functionality can be configured and maintained."
"I found scalability in Loadbalancer.org valuable."
"The support we have received from Loadbalancer.org has been good."
"It helps us to route the traffic to the available servers. If we didn't have Loadbalancer we would fail to set the end-user and it would cause a failure in the cluster."
"For now, it's stable."
"Loadbalancer is easy to use. It performs well, with low latency."
"The performance is good."
"The product is resilient."
"This solution has everything."
"Nginx is simple to configure, very stable in a highly utilized environment and very modular, allowing DevOps to create it's own modules for interactive use with Nginx."
"Zero Downtime has always been a strength in recommending infrastructure web services. NGINX allows me to execute such infrastructure with less complications and the ability to switch from server to server easily."
"With NGINX, I appreciate its ability to route traffic geographically."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is simple to configure."
"The most valuable features are the gateway and the ability to publish to sites."
"When you use NGINX, you have more options and power."
"A more hybrid approach would be beneficial for users."
"I think the logging could be improved."
"It's a very expensive solution."
"Security and Reporting."
"The solution could improve the documentation."
"There is a challenge in Pakistan. This is when there is a hardware failure. Sometimes, it takes more time to get a replacement because it is sent out from the U.S. or some other regional outpost. Thus, it takes two to three days to receive a replacement."
"BIG-IP LTM is taking a long time to mature in cloud environments. They plan to improve cloud integration in the next version, but it isn't out yet. It's essential because more companies are moving to the cloud these days and using things like Kubernetes or microservices. F5 needs to improve in that direction, and they are."
"It would be good to have better traffic and better data. It would be nice to have more granularity to see packets in terms of the header details, the analytics, etc. It would be nice if that was also part of it and to have analytics added to the traffic."
"The interface from Loadbalancer.org should be improved."
"Originally we had some stability issues with it, so they replaced it with a new box and it's fine."
"We could enhance the security aspects of the load balancer."
"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."
"Compared to the physical products, the solution's throughput is a little less."
"I would like a notification when a new version of the software is available. They told me to sign up for their newsletter, but I have not received any notification for a newer software version."
"An area for improvement in Loadbalancer.org is that sometimes it works fine, but sometimes, it has issues. The setup for Loadbalancer.org is also complex, so that's another area for improvement."
"It doesn't have the bonding capability feature."
"The solution's GUI is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"The drawback is that you must obtain a license for everything."
"Lack of a feature to print data on the terminal for verification of network traffic during debugging and testing."
"Improvement needed in NGINX Plus could focus on optimizing memory usage for users."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model."
"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."
"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."
"I would suggest adding GUI-based configuration panels to NGINX Plus to simplify setup and management tasks."
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