We performed a comparison between Akamai Ion and NGINX Plus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."Akamai is easy to use and very effective."
"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."
"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."
"Supports IMAP, POP and SMTP protocols for the reverse proxy."
"I need to highlight that the number one thing about NGINX is that it is free."
"NGINX Plus also has NGINX App Protect. It's a separate module, which is inspired by the F5 apps."
"When you use NGINX, you have more options and power."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is simple to configure."
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"The product must provide more flexibility."
"NGINX Plus is moderately priced, but it could give better value for money."
"Lack of a feature to print data on the terminal for verification of network traffic during debugging and testing."
"I would suggest adding GUI-based configuration panels to NGINX Plus to simplify setup and management tasks."
"They should do in the open source version of what they did to Advanced HTTP, TCP, and UDP load balancing."
"The user interface could be improved."
"Our most challenging part was to run an older PHP website reverse-proxied through NGINX. That was not fun."
"The scalability could be improved."
"The scaling should be built into the software rather than configured from an outside source."
Akamai Ion is ranked 15th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 1 review while NGINX Plus is ranked 5th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 28 reviews. Akamai Ion is rated 7.0, while NGINX Plus is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Akamai Ion writes "Helps optimize the content delivery network, but doesn’t provide much flexibility". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". Akamai Ion is most compared with , whereas NGINX Plus is most compared with IIS, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Apache Web Server.
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