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."Because ADC is the intermediary between the servers and the end-user application, it gives thorough information about the traffic, what the problem is."
"Although FortiADC has multiple features that I like, the global DNS is the most helpful. It is primarily useful for customers with huge environments and at least two data centers. FortiADC can act as your DNS server. It can check which data center has the lowest latency, and route traffic to that one. It's an intelligent DNS."
"The GSLB, the DR side, is the best part. Because we had our main side in one city, we created another, and we had a complete MPLS over the internet. We used the GSLB and data loss for our business applications."
"The user interface is very easy and integrates with Sandbox easily."
"It's a good product because it supports all the features that ADC solutions in the market can support, like F5 solutions, for example, such as the LTM of F5."
"The most valuable feature is its simplicity."
"Simple to use and easy to integrate."
"Key features include SSL Offloading, VM availability, and L7 load balancing."
"The product is resilient."
"Nginx is extremely efficient in terms of the connection rate to the CPU cycles ratio, and in terms of the bandwidth to CPU cycles."
"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 most valuable features are the gateway and the ability to publish to sites."
"The web proxy and the database proxy are excellent."
"This solution has everything."
"The product is lightweight and fast."
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"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"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."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"Fortinet FortiADC should include an advanced-level SD-WAN."
"I think it would be helpful if Fortinet put more video examples on their cookbook site."
"The solution should improve finding false positives and false negatives. There are a lot of false positives."
"The configuration is relatively complex."
"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."
"It would be great if there was even more automation to make it even easier to maintain."
"Improvement needed in NGINX Plus could focus on optimizing memory usage for users."
"I would like to see the Grafana integration in NGINX which is already present in HAProxy. Grafana integration will help the solution visualize all the data analytics on the dashboard which is currently not present."
"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. "
"The solution's GUI is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"I would like it to have a more user-friendly graphical interface."
"They should do in the open source version of what they did to Advanced HTTP, TCP, and UDP load balancing."
"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."
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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