We performed a comparison between CDN77 and F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cloudflare, NETSCOUT, Akamai and others in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection."I selected CDN77 because it has servers where our different target markets are (some are in Asia)."
"It has improved our organization by providing quick access to resources."
"The control panel is nicely laid out and I do not have to hunt for functionality."
"It has helped improve load speed on the site."
"Purge pages: It is a fast solution for updating my content from all datacenters."
"It is extremely easy to set up and integrate with WordPress and purge files as needed through the control panel."
"This product excells in every aspect from installation and the interface to providing superior network security."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that the blocking of IP's."
"It is stable."
"The protection is very useful."
"We use three main features. The first one is access control. The second feature we use is called IP intelligence. Finally, we have a DDoS safety feature."
"The product’s most valuable features are LTM and WAF."
"F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager's most valuable feature is load balance. It is readily available and uncomplicated."
"The solution is easily deployable and has great functionality."
"If you are a low-use user and not used the minimum credit, it will be lost at end of year unless you upgrade, then you are left with more bandwidth than you can ever use."
"A year ago, I had to deal with SEO factors involving duplication of content."
"Firstly, geolocation currently relies on manual updates. It has to move to automatic updates. There are no automatic updates for this feature. If some IPs, countries, or service providers move to another country, now you will be allow IPs that you previously denied. This is because you depend on the database, which doesn't update automatically. This is really a very important area that they need to improve."
"For configuring the firewall, every single vendor on the planet has pretty much the same logic when it comes to firewalls, and F5 has a completely different approach and completely different behavior."
"F5 could provide a distributed cloud version."
"There should be simplified and better integration with BIG-IQ."
"F5 BIG-IP AFM can improve the reporting interface in relation to advanced troubleshooting depending on CLI. They should have enhanced troubleshooting with the use of GUI."
"There is room for improvement in Advanced Firewall Manager's dashboard statistics, especially during attacks."
"The product is expensive."
"Some spam can go by the firewall."
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CDN77 is ranked 32nd in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection while F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is ranked 8th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 21 reviews. CDN77 is rated 10.0, while F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of CDN77 writes "The control panel is nicely laid out and I do not have to hunt for functionality". On the other hand, the top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) writes "Straightforward setup with very good granularity and performance". CDN77 is most compared with Cloudflare and Sucuri, whereas F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is most compared with Arbor DDoS, AWS Shield and Radware DefensePro.
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