Compare Kemp LoadMaster vs. NGINX Plus
Kemp LoadMaster is ranked 6th in Application Delivery Controllers with 6 reviews while NGINX Plus which is ranked 5th in Application Delivery Controllers with 9 reviews. Kemp LoadMaster is rated 8.8, while NGINX Plus is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Kemp LoadMaster writes "Provides load-balancing and adds reverse proxy for further security". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NGINX Plus writes "Extremely efficient in terms of the connection rate to the CPU cycles ratio". Kemp LoadMaster is most compared with F5 BIG-IP, HAProxy and Citrix NetScaler ADC, whereas NGINX Plus is most compared with HAProxy , F5 BIG-IP and IIS. See our Kemp LoadMaster vs. NGINX Plus report.
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With Kemp 360 Central, our customers get a nice overview of their Kemp products and an easy way to upgrade firmware on all devices from a single interface. Exchange load balancing and reverse proxy for Skype for Business are key features. Edge Security Pack is valuable because of the way it separates between critical infrastructure and the public internet. Simple to install with good documentation. There is a simplicity to the setup and configuration. It helps with efficiency and reactivity, in case of assistance needs. We needed a Microsoft Threat Management Gateway server replacement solution for a customer and were impressed with the simplified deployment of the Kemp LoadMasters. | 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. The robust software architecture allows for it to be scalable and very stable. The flexibility of its modules allow it to be scalable. 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. When I worked in a security research center, we tested NGINX to support DoS and DDoS attacks, and its results were great. Valuable features include authentication, caching, reverse proxy routing, and load balancing. The best solution, by far, for web traffic control for things in production and just around the house. |
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The auth website of ESP is really lacking. It’s not responsive (mobile friendly) and the procedure of changing the website is difficult. We tend to avoid using pre-auth for that reason. Several elements of the GUI need work. For example, if you have many content switches, it’s difficult to find the ones you need. And where is the search feature? If you want logging for SMTP traffic, you have to enable ESP, which requires you to define allowed IP addresses. That’s irritating, to say the least. It lacks an officially supported, well-written SCOM Management Pack. They need to improve the UI environment. Currently, it's hard to navigate and use product. Some documentation is out of date versus the new version, and things have been moved. SNMP and/or RESTCONF management, in order to collect many counters, for plotting in a central application need to be improved. Some of the support documentation seems to make assumptions that the person installing or configuring is experienced with the product or concepts. | They should do in the open source version of what they did to Advanced HTTP, TCP, and UDP load balancing. Our most challenging part was to run an older PHP website reverse-proxied through NGINX. That was not fun. If NGINX brings some features for health check in the open source version, it would be better. 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. I would like it to have a more user-friendly graphical interface. 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. 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. |
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It has a great price for the solution they offer. I have control on the licensing and all the prices since I work for a partner. KEMP gives away free trials for 30 days. This can be stretched if you want. During the test, you will have access to KEMP support. It has a very attractive ratio of price/performance. Download Kemp's VLM trial and take it for a test drive; you will be impressed. | NGINX is a free tool in Brazil. There are some companies which do support it. The price is the cost to contract support with a specialized company, usually during consulting hours. NGINX Plus is worth it, if you need it. If you do not need the features or support, the free and open source package is more than capable. I am not so happy with their pricing policy, but this is not the worse thing in my life. I can tolerate it. Nginx is free. I don't have experience with the Plus version. |
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Views 9,698 Comparisons 4,691 Reviews 6 Average Words per Review 279 Avg. Rating 8.8 | Views 12,395 Comparisons 8,453 Reviews 9 Average Words per Review 322 Avg. Rating 9.6 |
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| LoadMaster Load Balancer | NGINX |
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Overview | |
Kemp LoadMaster provides High Availability, Scalability and Security for Application Delivery. Optimized load balancers for Hybrid Cloud and Public Cloud deployments. Available for Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS. | NGINX Plus is the all‑in‑one application delivery platform for the modern web. NGINX is the world’s most popular open source web server and load balancer for high‑traffic sites, powering over 200 million properties. NGINX Plus adds enterprise-ready features for HTTP, TCP, and UDP load balancing, such as session persistence, health checks, advanced monitoring, and management to give you the freedom to innovate without being constrained by infrastructure. |
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Learn more about Kemp LoadMaster | Learn more about NGINX Plus |
Sample Customers | |
| Kent County Council, KEMP, SMA Solar Technology AG, RT Player , Victrix (Quebec, Canada), Texas A&M, Macmillan Cancer Support, Cisco, Austin Bank | Locaweb, AppNexus, Wix, Reliam, Montana Interactive, MuleSoft, Warpwire, Discovery Education, InkaBinka, WordPress.com, Gogo, GOV.UK, NASA |
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