F5 BIG-IP Alternatives

4.6(292 Ratings)

Application Delivery Controllers

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1. Kemp LoadMaster Load Balancer

By Progress Software

4.9

Kemp Loadmaster is a reliable and budget-friendly load balancer for small to medium sized organizations. It offers flexible Layer4 and Lyaer7 load balancing, SSL offloading and built-in Web Application Firewall for essential security with easy setup and a user-friendly interface and deployment options across virtual cloud and hardware environments. The technical support is good and provides immediate response.Read all insights and reviews for Kemp LoadMaster Load Balancer

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2. Amazon Route 53

By Amazon Web Services (AWS)

4.6

route 53 works seamlessly with out devops infrastructure and provides us confidence in our setup. we can be hands off knowing the reliability provided by amazon. being able to integrate aws services across our dev team and envirnoments helps make everything work seamlessly and helps us monitor and maintain our infrastracute. we continue to look for new aws tools to implemt that can streamlien out processes. amazon bedrock is our newest prodict that wr are lookijg at implementing for advanced llm services and guardrails ehen using ai in our service.Read all insights and reviews for Amazon Route 53

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3. Loadbalancer Enterprise ADC

By Loadbalancer.org

4.9

The experience has been great. The product fulfills our requirements and works as expected post implementation. The deployment process has been made super easy by the collective effort of the service team. In short, objective accomplished with seamless experience.Read all insights and reviews for Loadbalancer Enterprise ADC

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4. Elastic Load Balancing

By Amazon Web Services (AWS)

4.3

It's great for scalable apps, and a great way to handle web traffic.Read all insights and reviews for Elastic Load Balancing

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5. Alteon

4.6

We are using Radware as a load balancer in our IoT environment where it is handling requests from more than 400 000 IoT devices. It efficiently distributes requests from these devices to our backend servers and maintains stable performance even during peak traffic periods. So far we haven't had any major issues or downtime and the set up is pretty easy and intuitive and it is providing good visibility.Read all insights and reviews for Alteon

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6. A10 Thunder ADC

By A10 Networks

4.6

The product has been extremely great to use. Its Application Delivery Controller along with SSL offloading is great and and its very easy to scale. The AXAPI feature has helped us integrate with CICD. which has been very helpful during patching of real servers.Read all insights and reviews for A10 Thunder ADC

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7. NetScaler

4.6

What makes NetScaler to be one, if not, the best Application Delivery Controller is that it optimizes application delivery to end users with excellent performance gains. Aside from the application's performance, it will also be secure. NetScaler has been one of the leading ADCs in the market and a lot of our customers continue to use it for those reasons. However, due to the recent acquisition by CSG, it may have become a bit pricey for our small to medium customers.Read all insights and reviews for NetScaler

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8. F5 NGINX One

By F5

4.2

NGinx Plus is an All-in-One complete platform for Application delivery, hosting and security. It consists of a web server, forward and reverse proxy, API gateway and load balancer. NGinx also has a Web Application Firewall that protects applications from OWASP Top 10 threats, but as a separate license. NGinx also comes as Open Source, however with NGinx Plus comes a commercial version with premium support from F5. F5 has a line of distributors and partners that provide NGinx Plus with managed service. NGinx is mainly designed for Linux based OS and can be installed as On-Premise version or can be used over cloud.Read all insights and reviews for F5 NGINX One

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