We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiADC 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."It's a good product because it supports all the features that ADC solutions in the market can support, like F5 solutions, for example, such as the LTM of F5."
"Simple to use and easy to integrate."
"TSL and SSL offloading are both very good features."
"Fortinet FortiADC is a good product because each and every piece of content is monitored by it."
"From a technical perspective, it is the most scalable device from Fortinet."
"The solution provides high-level services such as availability, redundancy, and load balancing between servers."
"Because ADC is the intermediary between the servers and the end-user application, it gives thorough information about the traffic, what the problem is."
"Key features include SSL Offloading, VM availability, and L7 load balancing."
"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."
"Application Gateway with application-level firewall tool and load distributor and balancer (also serves for A/B testing)."
"NGINX Plus also has NGINX App Protect. It's a separate module, which is inspired by the F5 apps."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is simple to configure."
"It performs very well. That's one of the primary reasons we use NGINX."
"When you use NGINX, you have more options and power."
"NGINX works much better than HAProxy in our current hardware and architecture for HTTP/HTTPS load balancing. "
"Its versatility and capabilities make it invaluable for implementing patches and fixes when necessary."
"FortiADC is complex to configure so the interface should be improved."
"Because it is so generic, the documentation requires special attention. A person who has not worked on Fortinet FortiADC or a similar product will struggle to understand what the document is trying to say. The documentation could be more specific, and more detailed."
"The configuration is relatively complex."
"Issues with SSL and encrypted traffic."
"Setup could be easier. The company's homework is to redesign those menus to configure with the smallest number of steps."
"The product's stability for VMs could be better."
"The solution's WAF needs an upgrade because it is not as good as FortiWeb, VMware, F5, or Imperva."
"The L7 Persistent load-balancing algorithm has not worked for me after having tested it many times with my customer's in-house application. I'd like to suggest that the company make sure that all load-balancing algorithms work properly with most applications, even those that are in-house apps."
"Lack of a feature to print data on the terminal for verification of network traffic during debugging and testing."
"Improvement needed in NGINX Plus could focus on optimizing memory usage for users."
"It would be good if NGINX provided a graphical user interface."
"I would like to see the Grafana integration in NGINX which is already present in HAProxy. Grafana integration will help the solution visualize all the data analytics on the dashboard which is currently not present."
"I would like it to have a more user-friendly graphical interface."
"I would suggest adding GUI-based configuration panels to NGINX Plus to simplify setup and management tasks."
"The scalability could be improved."
"The KPI should be more focused on load balancing and the latency in application calling from the end system."
Fortinet FortiADC is ranked 8th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 19 reviews while NGINX Plus is ranked 5th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 28 reviews. Fortinet FortiADC is rated 7.8, while NGINX Plus is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiADC writes "High-level load balancing and routing protocols but scalability is limited to 200 gigabits". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". Fortinet FortiADC is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Fortinet FortiWeb, Citrix NetScaler, Kemp LoadMaster and FortiGSLB, whereas NGINX Plus is most compared with IIS, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Avi Networks Software Load Balancer. See our Fortinet FortiADC vs. NGINX Plus report.
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