We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Linode based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."it has TCP LAN and WAN optimization features. It has has caching."
"The product is very stable. We put a decent amount of stress on it given our load."
"iRules are very valuable. In addition to that, the way profiles are depicted by the LTM is also very good."
"The setup is pretty easy."
"The most valuable feature is being able to manipulate the iRules, so you can send traffic to different avenues."
"F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager is a stable and reliable solution."
"We use F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager to balance traffic."
"The most valuable feature is the proxy."
"The fact that you can do any Linux distribution is great. You can try out any Linux distribution, even some of the more obscure ones, and they are always keeping them up-to-date. As soon as a new distribution comes out, it is on the platform pretty much the same day, which I find really helpful."
"I very much like the support that you get, and I think that it's excellent."
"The number one thing we like about Linode isn't necessarily a service, it's their support. We've found their support to be absolutely fantastic. They've been so outstanding with their support. Every single time we call them and we ask for advice or help, they go above and beyond and it's really made us appreciate what they do."
"The most valuable feature is the domain settings page."
"The simplicity by which you can handle your inventory is one of the things I like the most."
"The most valuable features are the simple scalability and ease of starting a new virtual machine."
"Linode offers cost-effective pricing, and it enables me to swiftly deploy my services."
"Because of the way that their pricing model is set up, I can scale up or down the size of a customer's server very easily. It makes life very easy for me when they run out of space, need more speed or RAM, etc. I can very easily pay the difference and reboot the machine, and now I have the upgrade that I wanted. That just makes it extremely simple."
"The GUI needs improvement."
"There is room for improvement in the user interface."
"Currently, the product offers everything we need. I can't recall any features that may be lacking."
"F5 could improve the rule-setting capabilities in the GUI, and they need to simplify web management. For example, the menus in the Citrix GUI are easier to navigate, with a clean structure and layout."
"Technical support is somewhat slow and could be improved."
"Technical support could be improved."
"If they made it easier for engineers to get F5 training then it would be better."
"The UI could be improved."
"They don't have role-based access control, which is problematic for us."
"It would be helpful if they provided the additional Linux distributions that I prefer using. But there is still a workaround. I can do it without direct support. It's a bit more complicated, but it can still be done."
"There is no notification from the company regarding upgrades."
"It would be helpful if they offered a service where they handle the Linux security."
"It's not really an issue with Linode itself but upgrading Linux major versions can be challenging. It would be be fantastic if Linode developed a way to ease transitioning to a major new Linux upgrade."
"Because they are a smaller company, they do not have, for example, all of the ways for authentication that Amazon or Azure has."
"Everything is up-to-date for a small business. But for big business, they need to improve certain things. For example, there should be better security."
"I would like Linode (without cluttering things) to provide some type of DevOps workflow where people are configuring their pipelines from running their tests and deploying to their test server. Once approved by clicking a button, it just gets deployed to production. I would like something like Azure DevOps, which we use for large applications, and would be something nice to have in Linode."
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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews while Linode is ranked 6th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 27 reviews. F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2, while Linode is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) writes "Helps deliver applications to users in a reliable, secure, and optimized way". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Linode writes "Straightforward to set up, helpful support, and the Object Storage is useful for system backups". F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus and A10 Networks Thunder ADC, whereas Linode is most compared with Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Cloudflare and Google Kubernetes Engine.
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