We performed a comparison between Loadbalancer.org 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."It's pretty much a Swiss Army knife for managing all the load balancing techniques."
"We now get notifications when pool members go down, and we eliminate our downtime by not sending traffic to downed pool members."
"The connection that this solution helps our servers maintain has been most useful."
"The load balancers have an easy installation and a relatively simple, easy user interface to use."
"The features I find valuable in this solution are the ease of managing the logs on the WAFs, the ease to identify break-in attempts into the network, the front-end firewall, and a more specific firewall."
"Loadbalancer.org is less complex than Citrix."
"The user interface precludes need to be well versed with Linux IPVS command line. This make it easy for junior team members to participate in managing load balancing needs."
"Loadbalancer is easy to use. It performs well, with low latency."
"NGINX Plus also has NGINX App Protect. It's a separate module, which is inspired by the F5 apps."
"The load balancing module, which is equivalent to LTM, is the focus of the PSE. So far, the features of both are identical. I believe NGINX has more features for securing these services, but in terms of load balancing, both are massive solutions."
"The best solution, by far, for web traffic control for things in production and just around the house."
"Valuable features include authentication, caching, reverse proxy routing, and load balancing."
"This solution has everything."
"Its versatility and capabilities make it invaluable for implementing patches and fixes when necessary."
"The product is resilient."
"NGINX Plus' most valuable feature is the ingress controller."
"They're mostly designed to balance a particular type of traffic. I wanted to load balance DNS, and they just don't do it the way that we wanted to. So they're not used as DNS load balancers."
"If I have to say something, I suppose they could add an automated configuration backup to an FTP location (or something similar) so you don’t have to manually do it. I don’t see this as a problem, of course, as the configuration rarely changes and we only need one backup, but maybe for other users that feature would be handy."
"It doesn't have the bonding capability feature."
"The configuration is somewhat complicated. Someone who does not know the solution may find this challenging."
"It would be great if there was a way to gain access to the graphing data, to create custom reports. If we had a way to use the graphing data, we could use it to present certain information to our client, such as the uptime status for their service."
"Originally we had some stability issues with it, so they replaced it with a new box and it's fine."
"Possibly a more graphical overview page (with colors) to give a two second overview to see if everything is working fine."
"The solution can be a bit pricey."
"The solution must improve its performance."
"The drawback is that you must obtain a license for everything."
"I would suggest adding GUI-based configuration panels to NGINX Plus to simplify setup and management tasks."
"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. "
"Our most challenging part was to run an older PHP website reverse-proxied through NGINX. That was not fun."
"NGINX is a very basic load balancer and cannot do as many customizations as F5."
"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."
Loadbalancer.org is ranked 10th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 22 reviews while NGINX Plus is ranked 5th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 27 reviews. Loadbalancer.org is rated 8.8, while NGINX Plus is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Loadbalancer.org writes "Great WAF - low-maintenance solution that performs as advertised ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". Loadbalancer.org is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, HAProxy, Fortinet FortiADC, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and A10 Networks Thunder ADC, whereas NGINX Plus is most compared with IIS, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and IBM WebSphere Application Server. See our Loadbalancer.org vs. NGINX Plus report.
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