We performed a comparison between Akamai Ion 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)."Akamai is easy to use and very effective."
"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."
"The robust software architecture allows for it to be scalable and very stable."
"Application Gateway with application-level firewall tool and load distributor and balancer (also serves for A/B testing)."
"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."
"Using NGINX Plus for web traffic distribution is fantastic. It offers performance similar to physical load balancers but with added flexibility."
"Valuable features include authentication, caching, reverse proxy routing, and load balancing."
"The product is lightweight and fast."
"The flexibility of its modules allow it to be scalable."
"The product must provide more flexibility."
"Our most challenging part was to run an older PHP website reverse-proxied through NGINX. That was not fun."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model."
"I would like it to have a more user-friendly graphical interface."
"The drawback is that you must obtain a license for everything."
"The KPI should be more focused on load balancing and the latency in application calling from the end system."
"I would like the configuration process to be more simplified."
"The solution needs to be easier to setup and deploy."
"Improvement needed in NGINX Plus could focus on optimizing memory usage for users."
Akamai Ion is ranked 15th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 1 review while NGINX Plus is ranked 5th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 28 reviews. Akamai Ion is rated 7.0, while NGINX Plus is rated 8.8. 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 NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". Akamai Ion is most compared with , 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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