We performed a comparison between Citrix NetScaler 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."Helped us a lot with load balancing."
"If you need PCI-compliance and have high security requirements, WAF is the most valuable feature. If you need to monitor your load-balancing services with complex types of monitoring, make sure everything is alright, and load balancing is important, Content Switching and Monitoring features are the keys to your needs. If you want to provide a lot of static images or data, the Caching feature works best for you."
"The web application firewalling component is a powerful feature."
"Very stable."
"Easy, user-friendly setup with content switching and integrated caching features."
"I like app flows and custom flows. They integrate with multiple flows."
"It is the best product out there."
"The solution was very easy to deploy."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is simple to configure."
"I think installation only took a couple of minutes — no more than 10 minutes."
"The web proxy and the database proxy are excellent."
"NGINX works much better than HAProxy in our current hardware and architecture for HTTP/HTTPS load balancing. "
"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 product is resilient."
"It's lightweight software that can handle heavy loads efficiently."
"This solution has everything."
"Getting to use some of the advanced tools, even with the assistance of Citrix support, can be challenging."
"ADC from Citrix has added functionalities from other products and the usability is very difficult for someone who is used to a simpler user interface, it's a little bit of a mess to use."
"An area for improvement would be the difficulty in finding information about standard licensing costs over the internet. They should provide some reference prices on the net to be quickly referred to."
"There are certain features that are very useful and Citrix makes you pay a bit more for them."
"The technical support could be better. Whenever I contacted support, I rarely got the solution that we needed. And most of the time, I finished fixing the problem by looking on the internet or by finding documents about the problem on Google."
"Too many bugs in the software and it's always difficult when you need to update."
"There are some features which are missing."
"The solution is a bit more expensive than some of the available solutions in this region. One solution in particular that I noticed was cheaper was Kemp."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model."
"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. "
"I would suggest adding GUI-based configuration panels to NGINX Plus to simplify setup and management tasks."
"It would be great if there was even more automation to make it even easier to maintain."
"The scaling should be built into the software rather than configured from an outside source."
"The scalability could be improved."
"If NGINX brings some features for health check in the open source version, it would be better. "
"The solution must improve its performance."
Citrix NetScaler is ranked 2nd in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 85 reviews while NGINX Plus is ranked 5th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 27 reviews. Citrix NetScaler is rated 8.4, while NGINX Plus is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Citrix NetScaler writes "Optimizing application delivery and ensuring robust network performance with its excellent stability and comprehensive load-balancing capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". Citrix NetScaler is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Fortinet FortiADC, HAProxy and Avi Networks Software Load Balancer, whereas NGINX Plus is most compared with IIS, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Microsoft Azure Application Gateway. See our Citrix NetScaler vs. NGINX Plus report.
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