We performed a comparison between A10 Networks Thunder 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."The ease of use is very good. It's very robust. It just sits and works."
"The DNS application firewall and load balancing are very valuable."
"A10 explained why the latency dropped significantly on a site that we have."
"Being a public entity and having a public website which is highly visible with a lot of traffic, we are a target for DDoS. Within the last year, we have had a couple of DDoS attacks which could have affected our web traffic and taken down certain parts of our website. This did not happen because the A10 was able to mitigate the attacks using rate limiting that can be configured for DDoS mitigation on the box."
"Compared to F5, which I used about six years ago, the A10 is much easier when routing. You don't have to use the wildcard bits to route it between the different segments. It's much less troublesome to configure."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable features in A10 Networks Thunder ADC are the ease of configuration, user-friendliness, and simplicity to sell to customers."
"For the past two and a half years, we have not had a need to open a tech support ticket. It is really stable. In the past, our experience with tech support was that they were extremely helpful."
"The flexibility of its modules allow it to be scalable."
"The best solution, by far, for web traffic control for things in production and just around the house."
"Its most valuable features are load balancing and application delivery. This is the most efficient application for these features because of stability and its efficiency."
"With NGINX, I appreciate its ability to route traffic geographically."
"Supports IMAP, POP and SMTP protocols for the reverse proxy."
"I think installation only took a couple of minutes — no more than 10 minutes."
"I need to highlight that the number one thing about NGINX is that it is free."
"It's lightweight software that can handle heavy loads efficiently."
"There are competitors that have more features."
"The solution should add automation features in the next release."
"Currently, the solution's WAF features are fewer. They should consider increasing their WAF features."
"A graphical dashboard for analyzing performance is needed."
"The user interface is not as pretty as it could be."
"In my opinion, they need to improve their cloud support. There is support for cloud, but not all functions are there, such as high-availability."
"There is room for improvement in the GUI. I just migrated from the 2.7 software train to the 4.1, and there are still people on 2.7. The latter is a very old GUI if you compare it to F5. It's not as easy to use and a lot of things are missing. They've made a lot of improvements in the 4.1 step, but compared to the ease of use of F5, it's still quite difficult. For people who haven't got a lot of experience, the GUI can be quite challenging."
"They need to make the user interface (GUI) a bit more usable and intuitive. Some features can be a little difficult to find at times. Sometimes, the workflow in the GUI doesn't match the workflow of an actual workflow. E.g., if I want to create a load balancer application, sometimes you've got to do things a bit out of order in the GUI in order to make it work right."
"The scalability could be improved."
"The center management system could be improved."
"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 user interface could be improved."
"NGINX is a very basic load balancer and cannot do as many customizations as F5."
"Improvement needed in NGINX Plus could focus on optimizing memory usage for users."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model."
A10 Networks Thunder ADC is ranked 12th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 21 reviews while NGINX Plus is ranked 5th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 27 reviews. A10 Networks Thunder ADC is rated 8.4, while NGINX Plus is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of A10 Networks Thunder ADC writes "With iRule or aFleX scripting, you can influence the complete packet instead of just a few bytes or bits". 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 Thunder ADC is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC, Radware Alteon and Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, whereas NGINX Plus is most compared with IIS, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Radware Alteon. See our A10 Networks Thunder ADC vs. NGINX Plus report.
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