We performed a comparison between Kemp LoadMaster 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."LoadMaster is easy to deploy and understand."
"The most valuable features for us are the Load Balancing and Web Application Firewall, as we have a lot of web applications."
"Great web balancing and remote access balancing."
"Simple to install with good documentation."
"Edge Security Pack is valuable because of the way it separates between critical infrastructure and the public internet."
"The configuration is really easy and the web portal is self-explanatory."
"The security features are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The user interface is very easy to work with."
"Nginx is extremely efficient in terms of the connection rate to the CPU cycles ratio, and in terms of the bandwidth to CPU cycles."
"The product is resilient."
"I think installation only took a couple of minutes — no more than 10 minutes."
"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."
"This solution has everything."
"Nginx is simple to configure, very stable in a highly utilized environment and very modular, allowing DevOps to create it's own modules for interactive use with Nginx."
"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."
"It would be helpful if there were a way to incorporate tooltips on the fields so that we don't have to dig through documentation."
"I think there should be more visual instructions on how to configure advanced features."
"Perhaps Kemp could offer some training videos."
"The only thing I have struggled with is setting up automatic backups."
"The GUI is rather technical and complex, so it could be improved by making it simpler and more user-friendly."
"I want to have the ability to pull a particular server. The DevOps portion was challenging for me, like if I needed to redirect from one IP to another URL. I needed to look that up, and the knowledge base is not well organized. When I look for information about Kemp on the Internet, I don't find many articles or something like that."
"We experienced a brief period of instability."
"They need to improve the UI environment. Currently, it's hard to navigate and use product."
"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."
"NGINX is a very basic load balancer and cannot do as many customizations as F5."
"The solution must improve its performance."
"They should do in the open source version of what they did to Advanced HTTP, TCP, and UDP load balancing."
"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 like it to have a more user-friendly graphical interface."
"I would suggest adding GUI-based configuration panels to NGINX Plus to simplify setup and management tasks."
"The solution's GUI is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
Kemp LoadMaster is ranked 6th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 48 reviews while NGINX Plus is ranked 5th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 27 reviews. Kemp LoadMaster is rated 9.4, while NGINX Plus is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Kemp LoadMaster writes "Reliable, easy to set up, and can increase your security score". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". Kemp LoadMaster is most compared with HAProxy, Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and A10 Networks Thunder ADC, whereas NGINX Plus is most compared with IIS, HAProxy, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Apache Web Server and Citrix NetScaler. See our Kemp LoadMaster vs. NGINX Plus report.
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