We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiADC 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."I am impressed with the product's load-balancing feature."
"TSL and SSL offloading are both very good features."
"The main feature that we use is GSLB (Global Server Load Balancing). GSLB makes the customer's network more reliable by scaling applications across multiple datacenters. GSLB as a disaster recovery solution can direct traffic based on site availability."
"Because ADC is the intermediary between the servers and the end-user application, it gives thorough information about the traffic, what the problem is."
"The user interface is very easy and integrates with Sandbox easily."
"Fortinet FortiADC is a good product because each and every piece of content is monitored by it."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL offloading capacity."
"Key features include SSL Offloading, VM availability, and L7 load balancing."
"NGINX Plus' most valuable feature is the ingress controller."
"The robust software architecture allows for it to be scalable and very stable."
"The best solution, by far, for web traffic control for things in production and just around the house."
"This solution has everything."
"I find the solution’s community support and documentation most valuable. Compared to HAProxy, have found a lot of documentation and community support on Quora. If you would be asking me as a developer whether to choose this product, I would recommend this since it has good community support, documentation, and signature updates. The configuration of HAProxy is also very tedious. However, NGINX’s configuration is very simple."
"Using NGINX Plus for web traffic distribution is fantastic. It offers performance similar to physical load balancers but with added flexibility."
"The product is resilient."
"With NGINX, I appreciate its ability to route traffic geographically."
"The solution's WAF needs an upgrade because it is not as good as FortiWeb, VMware, F5, or Imperva."
"I think it would be helpful if Fortinet put more video examples on their cookbook site."
"The L7 Persistent load-balancing algorithm has not worked for me after having tested it many times with my customer's in-house application. I'd like to suggest that the company make sure that all load-balancing algorithms work properly with most applications, even those that are in-house apps."
"Technical support and documentation could both be improved."
"Because it is so generic, the documentation requires special attention. A person who has not worked on Fortinet FortiADC or a similar product will struggle to understand what the document is trying to say. The documentation could be more specific, and more detailed."
"Issues with SSL and encrypted traffic."
"FortiADC is complex to configure so the interface should be improved."
"It would be good if they built in a fully functional web application firewall."
"It would be good if NGINX provided a graphical user interface."
"I would like it to have a more user-friendly graphical interface."
"Improvement needed in NGINX Plus could focus on optimizing memory usage for users."
"The solution must improve its performance."
"If NGINX brings some features for health check in the open source version, it would be better. "
"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. "
"NGINX is a very basic load balancer and cannot do as many customizations as F5."
"NGINX Plus is moderately priced, but it could give better value for money."
Fortinet FortiADC is ranked 8th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 19 reviews while NGINX Plus is ranked 5th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 27 reviews. Fortinet FortiADC is rated 7.8, while NGINX Plus is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiADC writes "High-level load balancing and routing protocols but scalability is limited to 200 gigabits". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". Fortinet FortiADC is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Fortinet FortiWeb, Citrix NetScaler, Kemp LoadMaster and Radware Alteon, whereas NGINX Plus is most compared with IIS, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Avi Networks Software Load Balancer. See our Fortinet FortiADC vs. NGINX Plus report.
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