We performed a comparison between NGINX Plus and Radware Alteon 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."-"
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Supports IMAP, POP and SMTP protocols for the reverse proxy."
"The most valuable features are the gateway and the ability to publish to sites."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is simple to configure."
"The interface is easy, it's friendly, and has good alerting."
"The most valuable feature is the load-balancing reverse proxy."
"It is easy to expand. Our clients are enterprise-size."
"his solution allows me to secure applications, by blocking suspicious traffic based on the signature that has been enabled for that particular application."
"The GUI was a valuable feature. It was uncomplicated and easy to use."
"The best features are the security through the web application firewall, the functionality that the solution offers, being a load balancer with the security functionality on top of it, and the ease of administration."
"The most valuable aspect is the ability to customize the types of load-balancing scenarios needed for customized applications. Some of the load balancers on the market today are strictly out-of-hand load balancers for SSL or HTTP. Radware Alteon is most useful for customizing in-house applications based on ports and protocols."
"The product offers high availability."
"The scaling should be built into the software rather than configured from an outside source."
"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."
"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 solution must improve its performance."
"It would be great if there was even more automation to make it even easier to maintain."
"The KPI should be more focused on load balancing and the latency in application calling from the end system."
"The drawback is that you must obtain a license for everything."
"I would like for the load balancing to work with premier and the cloud, a mix of premium and cloud."
"I would like to see the loading documentation improved."
"Radware Alteon could improve the troubleshooting from the command line interface, they could do a better job making it easier."
"We are having a difficult time with the security module, and how to implement the Radware security."
"We recently had a problem with the tables Obsolete ARP which was observed by the support team. It would be good to diagnose and solve this problem with a patch since it is not documented that it will be solved in later updates."
"We are in the process of updating our version of the solution, so judging what should be improved is difficult. But in some cases, the visualization takes a while, especially for mapping issues."
"The user interface can be improved."
"I would like the solution to display and help visualize the reference map more easily. I would also like to better understand where queries come from and know which users are consulting the application, along with which app."
NGINX Plus is ranked 5th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 27 reviews while Radware Alteon is ranked 7th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 33 reviews. NGINX Plus is rated 8.8, while Radware Alteon is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Radware Alteon writes "It's a good fit for a small team because the maintenance is easier and you don't need to know how to code". NGINX Plus is most compared with IIS, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Fortinet FortiADC, whereas Radware Alteon is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Citrix NetScaler, F5 Advanced WAF, A10 Networks Thunder ADC and Radware LinkProof. See our NGINX Plus vs. Radware Alteon report.
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