We performed a comparison between A10 Networks Lightning ADC 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."What I like about Lightning ADC, is that instead of having a big appliance sitting in front of the Kubernetes cluster, Lightning can pretty much go inside of Kubernetes."
"It allows you to secure the application while balancing the connections for many other customers, reducing CPU usage and server load."
"Our clients appreciate that this is a security enabled solution."
"I think installation only took a couple of minutes — no more than 10 minutes."
"Nginx is extremely efficient in terms of the connection rate to the CPU cycles ratio, and in terms of the bandwidth to CPU cycles."
"When you use NGINX, you have more options and power."
"This solution has everything."
"The flexibility of its modules allow it to be scalable."
"Its versatility and capabilities make it invaluable for implementing patches and fixes when necessary."
"It's lightweight software that can handle heavy loads efficiently."
"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."
"A10 documentation is not as open and accessible as AWS and Azure documentation is."
"We would like to see some improvement in the rapidity with which we can customize security facts within the solution."
"The support from A10 should be improved."
"The scaling should be built into the software rather than configured from an outside source."
"The drawback is that you must obtain a license for everything."
"It would be great if there was even more automation to make it even easier to maintain."
"Our most challenging part was to run an older PHP website reverse-proxied through NGINX. That was not fun."
"The KPI should be more focused on load balancing and the latency in application calling from the end system."
"The biggest room for improvement would be to allow NGINX Core machines to cluster for memory zones in some way with a plug and play module. "
"If NGINX brings some features for health check in the open source version, it would be better. "
"I would suggest adding GUI-based configuration panels to NGINX Plus to simplify setup and management tasks."
A10 Networks Lightning ADC is ranked 16th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 3 reviews while NGINX Plus is ranked 5th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 27 reviews. A10 Networks Lightning ADC is rated 7.0, while NGINX Plus is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of A10 Networks Lightning ADC writes "Efficient application security while optimizing connections". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". A10 Networks Lightning ADC is most compared with A10 Networks Thunder ADC and Kemp LoadMaster, whereas NGINX Plus is most compared with IIS, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Apache Web Server. See our A10 Networks Lightning ADC vs. NGINX Plus report.
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