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Kemp LoadMaster Load Balancer

byProgress Software
in Application Delivery Controllers
4.9

Overview

Product Information on Kemp LoadMaster Load Balancer

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Kemp LoadMaster Load Balancer?

Kemp LoadMaster Load Balancer is a software that manages and distributes network traffic across multiple servers to optimize application uptime and resource utilization. It supports a range of protocols and provides features such as layer 4 and layer 7 load balancing, SSL offloading, global server load balancing, content switching, and web application firewall. The software aims to ensure high availability and reliability for mission-critical applications by automatically detecting server health and rerouting traffic when necessary. Kemp LoadMaster Load Balancer is used to address business needs related to traffic management, application performance, and secure data exchange in enterprise IT environments.

Kemp LoadMaster Load Balancer Pricing

Kemp LoadMaster Load Balancer software uses a subscription-based pricing model with options for perpetual licensing. Pricing is typically tiered based on throughput capacity, deployment type, and feature sets. The software may also offer additional support and maintenance services for an extra fee, with various upgrades and editions available according to user requirements and infrastructure size.

Overall experience with Kemp LoadMaster Load Balancer

NETWORK ENGINEER
500M - 1B USD, IT Services
FAVORABLE

“Kemp Loadmaster: Comprehensive Security in Load Balancing”

5.0
Dec 2, 2024
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.
CIO
Gov't/PS/ED <5,000 Employees, Services (non-Government)
CRITICAL

“Cool load balancer, proven to work with microsoft products”

3.0
Mar 2, 2018
this load balancer works as expected, although implementing it needs specific knowhow and the user interface has some complexity. we are using it mainly to loadbalance exchange servers for the outlook clients, and this has proven to work properly and in a very stable manner. we went for the virtual appliance, which runs on our vmware infrastructure smoothly and enable us to save room and HUs avoiding the traditional appliances. the LB runs in cluster, so we keep the two instances running in different datacenters for proper load balancing.

About Company

Company Description

Updated 7th December 2023

Progress (Nasdaq: PRGS) is a company that aids businesses in achieving faster innovation cycles, fueling growth and success. It provides top quality products for the development, deployment and management of high-impact applications. The company's services ensure the creation of necessary applications and user experiences, offers flexibility in how and where to deploy and facilitates the safe and secure management of all these processes. This comprehensive solution makes Progress an essential resource for numerous enterprises, software companies and developers, supporting them in meeting their defined objectives.

Company Details

Updated 26th February 2025
Company type
Public
Year Founded
1981
Head office location
Burlington, MA, United States
Number of employees
1001 - 5000
Website
https://www.progress.com/

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Kemp LoadMaster Load Balancer Likes & Dislikes

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The product is great and easy to implement

Like

KEMP have a partnership with Microsoft around Exchange. The great thing is also that the virtual appliance allows you to load balance your application but without the need of adding hardware to your datacenter. this is a great approach and the technology has proven to work as expected without issues.

Like

Very Affordable Stable Support team is quick

Dislike

I honestly can't think of anything I don't like about the Kemp.

Dislike

The standard configurations (for example, load balance exhange) could be a bit easier and more intuitive to set up. I admit, that there is good documentation we all should find the time to read. But still, making things easier is never an error.

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Lack of reporting GUI needs to be improved WAF feature not very advanced

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Kemp LoadMaster Load Balancer Reviews and Ratings

4.9

(370 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
89%
4 Star
10%
3 Star
0%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
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Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.8

Integration & Deployment

4.9

Service & Support

4.9

Product Capabilities

4.8

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  • NETWORK ENGINEER
    50M-1B USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Kemp Loadmaster: Comprehensive Security in Load Balancing

    5.0
    Dec 2, 2024
    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.
  • TECHNICAL MANAGER
    <50M USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Overall a good solution to have for business of all sizes.

    4.0
    Dec 29, 2023
    A very affordable and stable Application Load Balancer. Have nearly all features for Medium and big enterprises for Load Balancing requirements.
  • Chief Information Security Officer
    50M-1B USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    An excellent virtual load balancer with a lot of configuration options

    5.0
    Nov 28, 2022
    Kemp's virtual loadmaster software is highly configurable and reliable. Some things can be improved but support is highly responsive and capable.
  • IT Associate
    1B-10B USD
    Construction
    Review Source

    Kemp LoadMaster is a great product.

    5.0
    Nov 28, 2022
    The Kemp Load Balancers are easy to use, perform very well, and have been quite reliable. Product feature documentation is also quite good for various application support.
  • Senior Systems Engineer
    Gov't/PS/Ed
    Education
    Review Source

    Great load balancer

    5.0
    Nov 29, 2022
    Kemp load balancers are by far the most flexible and feature rich in their field.
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