We performed a comparison between Citrix Intelligent Traffic Management 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)."We use the HDX protocol, a high-performing component of the Citrix solutions. We also use provisioning to generate VM and NetScaler ADC solutions to propose access to applications for our customers."
"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."
"When you use NGINX, you have more options and power."
"This solution has everything."
"It's lightweight software that can handle heavy loads efficiently."
"With NGINX, I appreciate its ability to route traffic geographically."
"It performs very well. That's one of the primary reasons we use NGINX."
"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."
"When I worked in a security research center, we tested NGINX to support DoS and DDoS attacks, and its results were great."
"We discussed problems with the network products with the Indian teams. The support center for network products is located in India. There are language barriers and issues with the time difference, so we sometimes face restrictions when dealing with this team."
"I would like the configuration process to be more simplified."
"It would be great if there was even more automation to make it even easier to maintain."
"The scalability could be improved."
"I would like it to have a more user-friendly graphical interface."
"The solution needs to be easier to setup and deploy."
"NGINX Plus is moderately priced, but it could give better value for money."
"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. "
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Citrix Intelligent Traffic Management is ranked 19th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) while NGINX Plus is ranked 5th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 28 reviews. Citrix Intelligent Traffic Management is rated 8.0, while NGINX Plus is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Citrix Intelligent Traffic Management writes "It's a robust and proven solution that we've been working with for many years". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". Citrix Intelligent Traffic Management is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, 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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