We performed a comparison between Citrix NetScaler, Loadbalancer.org, 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)."The solution is extremely stable."
"Its customer support service is good."
"Provides resiliency for applications that reside on servers, as well as connectivity to remote applications."
"One of its most valuable features is fundamental load balancing, supporting both basic load balancing and database teams."
"I find all of it to be valuable, because of the flexibility that is built into this product."
"The GSLB feature allows us to move services between data centers. We can do this in either a planned or unplanned manner. We have experienced service provider outages at our primary data center and GSLB will kick in to automatically modify DNS records to point to a secondary data center (active/passive). We also make use of GeoIP information to point clients to the closest data center for accessing applications."
"I would say the rewriting and redirection functions are must-have's for us."
"The flexibility in configuration options is impressive."
"The SSL Layer 7 load balancing is valuable."
"For now, it's stable."
"With basic network knowledge, our required system functionality can be configured and maintained."
"We can more easily set up a test environment, because you can easily configure your forms. It makes it more flexible for us, to convert our test environment to a production environment, without having to change DNSs on the outside. You just configure the forms on the inside. So without changing the actual endpoint for the end user, we can create completely different networks in the background."
"The performance is good."
"Existing customers are trying to migrate from the physical F5 load balancer to the AVI load balancer because it is scalable and easily managed."
"I found scalability in Loadbalancer.org valuable."
"Loadbalancer.org is less complex than Citrix."
"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."
"The product is resilient."
"Its most valuable features are load balancing and application delivery. This is the most efficient application for these features because of stability and its efficiency."
"The web proxy and the database proxy are excellent."
"It performs very well. That's one of the primary reasons we use NGINX."
"Supports IMAP, POP and SMTP protocols for the reverse proxy."
"Valuable features include authentication, caching, reverse proxy routing, and load balancing."
"NGINX Plus also has NGINX App Protect. It's a separate module, which is inspired by the F5 apps."
"The interface needs to be improved because the competition is coming up with ones that are more eye-catching, straightforward, and sophisticated."
"I will try to migrate all the tools to the cloud because there is more lab and more VPN scalability available in the cloud. It is not available on-premises."
"I would like to see them make it easier to do some of the more complex things. For example, a web re-direct requires two pieces to it. You have two ports and when people want to go to a web page, they just type in the webpage that on the backend it will redirect them to a secure link. The initial setup of that is cumbersome because you have to do it twice. There are things that can be replicated. The IP address, for example, is the same. This change would go a long way. Don't make me do it twice and don't make me have to read tons of documentation to figure out how to do it. Ease of configuration for some of the more complex processes would be a good improvement."
"This is an expensive solution."
"Native integration needs to be improved. You cannot build ISE codes natively. For DevOps, integration would be very helpful because it would be a lot simpler from an operational standpoint."
"Getting to use some of the advanced tools, even with the assistance of Citrix support, can be challenging."
"The technical support could be improved. They do not respond or assist customers in a timely manner."
"Technical support could be improved."
"If I have to say something, I suppose they could add an automated configuration backup to an FTP location (or something similar) so you don’t have to manually do it. I don’t see this as a problem, of course, as the configuration rarely changes and we only need one backup, but maybe for other users that feature would be handy."
"The configuration is somewhat complicated. Someone who does not know the solution may find this challenging."
"I'd like to see scalability improved; it can be costly."
"I would like a notification when a new version of the software is available. They told me to sign up for their newsletter, but I have not received any notification for a newer software version."
"The automatic refresh of the System Overview webpage: It sometimes has an extra webpage reload (after a change) before you see it is executed. This can be confusing."
"There are many features you can set in the backend of Loadbalancer. They should simplify the configuration. The administrator should be able to configure it more simply. How it is now, you can only configure it if you have a lot of experience."
"Possibly a more graphical overview page (with colors) to give a two second overview to see if everything is working fine."
"The configuration is somewhat complicated. Someone who does not know the solution may find this challenging."
"Improvement needed in NGINX Plus could focus on optimizing memory usage for users."
"It would be good if NGINX provided a graphical user interface."
"Make modules easier to enable or disable. The beauty and ugly side of the NGINX modules is you have to know how to compile the module. For beginners or non-very technical aspirant(s) going for NGINX, they have to learn how to compile the modules."
"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."
"Our most challenging part was to run an older PHP website reverse-proxied through NGINX. That was not fun."
"The solution's GUI is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"The solution needs to be easier to setup and deploy."
"The KPI should be more focused on load balancing and the latency in application calling from the end system."
