We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) 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."The most valuable feature I found is iRules."
"Our experience has been very good, in terms of performance, and securing our application infrastructure."
"The most helpful thing is that it's open-source. It's very easy to program and customize."
"It is a fast and available solution."
"The configuration and integration into the AWS environment was pretty easy."
"The occasion in which we needed technical support, we didn't have problems with them, because they always answered our questions without any trouble."
"iRules are very valuable. In addition to that, the way profiles are depicted by the LTM is also very good."
"I like that F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is a product that comes with valuable features, but what stands out from all features is load balancing."
"I think installation only took a couple of minutes — no more than 10 minutes."
"Its versatility and capabilities make it invaluable for implementing patches and fixes when necessary."
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"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."
"Using NGINX Plus for web traffic distribution is fantastic. It offers performance similar to physical load balancers but with added flexibility."
"Supports IMAP, POP and SMTP protocols for the reverse proxy."
"This solution has everything."
"The most valuable features are the gateway and the ability to publish to sites."
"Certificate management needs improvement. I would like automated deployment of new certificates without manual intervention to be in the next release of this product."
"The one gap I saw was that pure LBN integration is a little tricky. The insertion of F5 in LBN is a little tricky. They need to work on something, on products by which they can insert F5 in any sort of cloud environment."
"If we decide to migrate to the cloud, I don't think that BIG-IP is a good solution and we probably won't use it."
"BIG-IP LTM is taking a long time to mature in cloud environments. They plan to improve cloud integration in the next version, but it isn't out yet. It's essential because more companies are moving to the cloud these days and using things like Kubernetes or microservices. F5 needs to improve in that direction, and they are."
"The pricing model has caused some frustration. My clients implemented the solution and later wanted to upgrade the features but the pricing structure was complicated. There are other solutions with better pricing models."
"The solution is scalable."
"They need to develop the reporting tools further."
"Its GUI could be a bit better. Other than that, it's already pretty good. We don't use it in a high-performance environment. So, we don't really care so much about too many features."
"They should do in the open source version of what they did to Advanced HTTP, TCP, and UDP load balancing."
"The solution's GUI is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"The solution needs to be easier to setup and deploy."
"I would like it to have a more user-friendly graphical interface."
"The KPI should be more focused on load balancing and the latency in application calling from the end system."
"The solution must improve its performance."
"Our most challenging part was to run an older PHP website reverse-proxied through NGINX. That was not fun."
"Lack of a feature to print data on the terminal for verification of network traffic during debugging and testing."
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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews while NGINX Plus is ranked 5th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 28 reviews. F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2, while NGINX Plus is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) writes "Reduces maintenance downtime and has a strong user community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, A10 Networks Thunder ADC and HAProxy, whereas NGINX Plus is most compared with IIS, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster, Apache Web Server and Citrix NetScaler. See our F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) vs. NGINX Plus report.
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