Kemp LoadMaster Reviews

Name: Kemp LoadMaster
Brand: Progress Software
Rating: 5 (48 reviews)

4.7 out of 5

48 reviews
98% willing to recommend

1,057 followers

What is Kemp LoadMaster?

Kemp LoadMaster is a powerful load balancing solution that also serves as a web application firewall. Its primary use case is load balancing and application load balancing, making it an ideal solution for organizations that must distribute traffic across multiple servers. Kemp's integration with an active directory for ESP usage, hosting/deployment of SSL certificates, and pricing are some of its most valuable features.

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Kemp LoadMaster is the #7 ranked solution in top Application Delivery Controllers. PeerSpot users give Kemp LoadMaster an average rating of 9.4 out of 10. Kemp LoadMaster is most commonly compared to Microsoft Azure Application Gateway: Kemp LoadMaster vs Microsoft Azure Application Gateway. Kemp LoadMaster is popular among the midsize enterprise segment, accounting for 69% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a educational organization, accounting for 63% of all views.

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Featured reviews

PeterForster

Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I use Kemp LoadMaster in my company as a replacement for Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway and as a load balancer for Microsoft Exchange services in an on-premises environment. Nowadays, I use Kemp LoadMaster as an application load balancer for SQL Server, DNS servers, and different…

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reviewer953256

IT Director at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

My primary use case of this solution is as a web application firewall Kemp mitigated our cross-scripting vulnerabilities, cookie-related issues, and content security policy issues. Instead of working on each application, we can do everything with Kemp. In addition, using Kemp has raised our site…

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AndreasKuhn

System Specialist at BT - British Telecom

They were still in the process of development, and for example, we set it up in a cluster. So it was one logistical unit built out of two physical devices. And the expected behavior, which I know from other devices, will be formed into a logic cluster. It's that you configure one unit. Then you bring the second unit into this cluster with the already configured primary unit. So the secondary box pulls all the configured ones from its neighbor, does everything automatically, and then synchronizes with this primary neighbor. And then it works, like, one logical unit. And this didn't work with the Kemp's initially, where they caused a lot of issues when building up a cluster, so there were some specials on how to set this up. When we built or set them up for the first time and the months afterward with no new software releases, there were a couple of problems, but in the end, they worked fine. So, they developed a lot and learned from what they've responded to, what we responded to them, and what needs fixing.

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Kemp LoadMaster mindshare

As of November 2024, the mindshare of Kemp LoadMaster in the Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) category stands at 7.5%, down from 7.6% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

"LoadMaster is easy to deploy and understand."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten...I rate the technical support a ten out of ten...The initial setup of Kemp LoadMaster is very simple."
"From my personal experience, many firewalls provide Load Balancing functionalities, but Kemp Loadmaster has a lot of features and functionalities like what you can configure. So there are a lot of features but we use only five percent of it."

Room for Improvement

"I want to have the ability to pull a particular server. The DevOps portion was challenging for me, like if I needed to redirect from one IP to another URL. I needed to look that up, and the knowledge base is not well organized. When I look for information about Kemp on the Internet, I don't find many articles or something like that."
"I want Kemp LoadMaster to provide users with better reporting capabilities in relation to TCP packets. In general, the connections that are present in the system require improvement."
"They were still in the process of development, and for example, we set it up in a cluster. So it was one logistical unit built out of two physical devices. And the expected behavior, which I know from other devices, will be formed into a logic cluster. It's that you configure one unit. Then you bring the second unit into this cluster with the already configured primary unit. So the secondary box pulls all the configured ones from its neighbor, does everything automatically, and then synchronizes with this primary neighbor. And then it works, like, one logical unit. And this didn't work with the Kemp's initially, where they caused a lot of issues when building up a cluster, so there were some specials on how to set this up. When we built or set them up for the first time and the months afterward with no new software releases, there were a couple of problems, but in the end, they worked fine. So, they developed a lot and learned from what they've responded to, what we responded to them, and what needs fixing."

Pricing

"The price of the solution is cheap."
"The price is lower than other options."
"The pricing is alright and we pay a monthly licensing fee"

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Top industries

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Educational Organization

63%

Computer Software Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

University

Manufacturing Company

Retailer

Comms Service Provider

Real Estate/Law Firm

Media Company

Construction Company

Healthcare Company

Non Profit

Insurance Company

Legal Firm

Energy/Utilities Company

Wholesaler/Distributor

Hospitality Company

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Learn more about Kemp LoadMaster

Using Kemp has helped organizations mitigate cross-scripting vulnerabilities, cookie-related issues, and content security policy issues. It has also allowed them to handle everything with Kemp instead of working on each application individually.

Kemp LoadMaster was previously known as LoadMaster Load Balancer.