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."The most valuable feature is the SSL VPN."
"It has helped us to increase the resiliency of the application and the performance."
"One of its most valuable features is fundamental load balancing, supporting both basic load balancing and database teams."
"SSL Offload"
"The MAS integration for HDX Insight has provided teams with significant visibility into network performance of the user's connection."
"It is the best product out there."
"The program is easy to install and to set up."
"It is a complete solution for those looking for an all-in-one."
"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."
"NGINX works much better than HAProxy in our current hardware and architecture for HTTP/HTTPS load balancing. "
"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."
"The robust software architecture allows for it to be scalable and very stable."
"I need to highlight that the number one thing about NGINX is that it is free."
"Using NGINX Plus for web traffic distribution is fantastic. It offers performance similar to physical load balancers but with added flexibility."
"The most valuable features are the gateway and the ability to publish to sites."
"Supports IMAP, POP and SMTP protocols for the reverse proxy."
"Should offer more flexible cost-effective licensing for small to medium sized organizations."
"Technical support could be improved."
"The licensing model and technical support of the solution could be improved."
"Too many bugs in the software and it's always difficult when you need to update."
"In every release - and it doesn't matter if it's a minor release or a major release - they keep moving things around and they keep changing the mechanism. So certain things can work in one version one way, and everything works really well, then when you upgrade it to the next version, it breaks everything because they have a new way of doing it."
"If one device or switch fails, the failover to another device is not seamless which is painful."
"The main areas for improvement would be around documentation and support. If a feature can be used in two or three ways, show that feature being used in all of those ways. Documentation seems to only cover the primary use case and leaves you to either run through trial and error or consult the user community. In terms of support, I have never actually had them solve any of my issues. I have always solved them myself and then provided the resolution to support."
"There are some features which are missing."
"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."
"If NGINX brings some features for health check in the open source version, it would be better. "
"It would be great if there was even more automation to make it even easier to maintain."
"The solution must improve its performance."
"The scalability could be improved."
"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."
"The user interface could be improved."
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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