We performed a comparison between Akamai Ion and Kemp LoadMaster based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."Akamai is easy to use and very effective."
"Great web balancing and remote access balancing."
"The Global WAF has saved us more than one time from unwanted traffic."
"The most valuable feature is the load balancing and allowing for high availability of our web services."
"I like the way this solution handles multiple SSLs in different domains while still load balancing."
"The most valuable features are synchronizing email with mobile devices and synchronizing with Outlook."
"The solution is easy to configure when changing the load balancing method to Round Robin or least connection."
"The most valuable feature so far has been the high-availability options that allowed us to add an additional Kemp LoadMaster VLM virtual appliance into our VMware vSphere environment, to provide failover for our existing LoadMaster."
"It is an easy-to-use, user-friendly interface, and you can set up a new VIP in a couple of minutes."
"The product must provide more flexibility."
"The configuration of the basic services is pretty straight forward but for more complex solutions, there needs to be better documentation or knowledge base articles."
"Third, the password history restriction needs improvement. For example, the password policy will restrict the user to always use a unique password combination. The password should not be reused for a minimum of three generations of passwords."
"The auth website of ESP is really lacking. It’s not responsive (mobile friendly) and the procedure of changing the website is difficult. We tend to avoid using pre-auth for that reason."
"Some documentation is out of date versus the new version, and things have been moved."
"The GUI is rather technical and complex, so it could be improved by making it simpler and more user-friendly."
"Some of the support documentation seems to make assumptions that the person installing or configuring is experienced with the product or concepts."
"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."
"Several elements of the GUI need work. For example, if you have many content switches, it’s difficult to find the ones you need. And where is the search feature?"
Akamai Ion is ranked 15th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 1 review while Kemp LoadMaster is ranked 6th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 48 reviews. Akamai Ion is rated 7.0, while Kemp LoadMaster is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of Akamai Ion writes "Helps optimize the content delivery network, but doesn’t provide much flexibility". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Kemp LoadMaster writes "Reliable, easy to set up, and can increase your security score". Akamai Ion is most compared with NGINX Plus, whereas Kemp LoadMaster is most compared with HAProxy, NGINX Plus, Fortinet FortiADC, Citrix NetScaler and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM).
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