We performed a comparison between Kemp LoadMaster 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."Load-balancing is a great feature that is very easy to configure and it is always working fine."
"The user interface is very easy to work with."
"Mitigates content security policy issues."
"The security features, load balancing, built-in templates, and the easy to implement virtual IPs are great."
"I like that this is a Network Load Balancer that can be used practically with any application in the backend. They have how-to guides on how to set up Kemp NLB with Exchange, but you can use it as well for Sharepoint, RDS, or any other back end server."
"The security features are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The DNS Load Balancer makes it so that I don't have to worry about site failures."
"The most valuable features are synchronizing email with mobile devices and synchronizing with Outlook."
"It's lightweight software that can handle heavy loads efficiently."
"When I worked in a security research center, we tested NGINX to support DoS and DDoS attacks, and its results were great."
"It performs very well. That's one of the primary reasons we use NGINX."
"Using NGINX Plus for web traffic distribution is fantastic. It offers performance similar to physical load balancers but with added flexibility."
"Its versatility and capabilities make it invaluable for implementing patches and fixes when necessary."
"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."
"NGINX works much better than HAProxy in our current hardware and architecture for HTTP/HTTPS load balancing. "
"If I had to change something it would maybe be to have a little better reporting graphics that show more details in the reporting. It seems to be a little small in the graphic, and I'm not sure if possible but maybe a GUI page that one can use to monitor if any server goes down."
"Although Kemp is very user-friendly, it lacks a more custom configuration."
"The cost of the GEO upgrade is not cost-prohibitive but it's something that would be a nice add-in, out of the box."
"I want to have the ability to pull a particular server. The DevOps portion was challenging for me, like if I needed to redirect from one IP to another URL. I needed to look that up, and the knowledge base is not well organized. When I look for information about Kemp on the Internet, I don't find many articles or something like that."
"Certificate installations could be simplified and modernized, and allowed to be monitored for expirations/issues."
"I want Kemp LoadMaster to provide users with better reporting capabilities in relation to TCP packets. In general, the connections that are present in the system require improvement."
"The product is really good as-is out of the box. If there is one thing I would change is to have the license file not be coupled with the MAC address of the device. This is actually not really useful in a virtual environment where if you have a single VM with KEMP LoadMaster and you have not set up static MAC Address, if you, for example, recreate the VM and just load the disk file on a new VM it will get new MAC address and the NLB will not work as it will not see a proper license."
"The ability to see live traffic is not great and can be improved."
"It would be good if NGINX provided a graphical user interface."
"Improvement needed in NGINX Plus could focus on optimizing memory usage for users."
"The scalability could be improved."
"NGINX is a very basic load balancer and cannot do as many customizations as F5."
"If NGINX brings some features for health check in the open source version, it would be better. "
"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."
"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. "
Kemp LoadMaster is ranked 6th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 48 reviews while NGINX Plus is ranked 5th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 28 reviews. Kemp LoadMaster is rated 9.4, while NGINX Plus is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Kemp LoadMaster writes "Reliable, easy to set up, and can increase your security score". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". Kemp LoadMaster is most compared with HAProxy, Fortinet FortiADC, Citrix NetScaler, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and A10 Networks Thunder ADC, whereas NGINX Plus is most compared with IIS, HAProxy, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Apache Web Server and Citrix NetScaler. See our Kemp LoadMaster vs. NGINX Plus report.
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