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NGINX Plus vs Radware Alteon comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
7.4
NGINX Plus improved website speed, reduced costs, and enhanced application accessibility, offering varied returns despite higher costs than alternatives.
Sentiment score
7.6
Radware Alteon users see significant ROI with improved traffic management, support, and automation, favoring renewals for technological maturity.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.8
Most users rely on community resources and documentation, but those who use technical support rate it effective despite variable response times.
Sentiment score
7.4
Radware Alteon is praised for responsive support and quick issue resolution, despite some time zone and response challenges.
We never face support issues, and their team resolves any critical issues quickly once they are involved.
There is a dedicated expert answering even the toughest questions.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
8.0
NGINX Plus is highly scalable, adaptable to configurations, and efficiently manages load balancing, especially on AWS or GCP.
Sentiment score
8.0
Radware Alteon excels in scalability and adaptability, offering seamless bandwidth and throughput increases in global and enterprise environments.
While some people use NGINX for web servers, my current use case focuses on networking and tunneling, which does not necessitate much scaling.
It handles peak loads and thousands of concurrent connections without exceeding 10% utilization.
I would rate it a nine out of ten for scalability.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.9
NGINX Plus is stable and reliable with minor concerns, often attributed to configuration, performing well in production environments.
Sentiment score
8.2
Radware Alteon is lauded for exceptional stability, offering reliable performance and minimal disruptions despite occasional past issues.
I require ninety-nine point nine percent uptime, and NGINX has been pivotal in helping me achieve this along with our other DNS services.
We've never faced downtime, even during peak transaction hours.
 

Room For Improvement

NGINX Plus needs improvements in scalability, ease of use, pricing, performance, security integration, and standalone deployment options.
Radware Alteon requires UI updates, enhanced automation, proactive support, and improved integration for better user satisfaction and scalability.
NGINX could provide a means to generate self-signed SSL certificates.
As with any application, there were initial issues, however, after receiving support, everything was rectified.
Other OEMs offer free courses and hands-on labs on new technologies and features, which we find useful.
They keep integrating new features that sometimes break our production, but we use clustered systems, so we can test those software releases.
 

Setup Cost

NGINX offers a free version, while NGINX Plus requires a paid license with flexible, feature-based pricing options.
Radware Alteon is cost-effective, competes with F5, offers flexible licensing, and combines hardware and support with good performance.
My use case involves using the free and open-source version of NGINX, making it cost-effective as I haven't incurred any costs.
The solution offers a cost advantage.
For our solution, it was right in the middle of price performance.
The cost of the Radware solution is reasonable and stable.
 

Valuable Features

NGINX Plus provides efficient load balancing, caching, and security with high performance, modularity, and seamless integration for flexible traffic management.
Radware Alteon offers robust security, intuitive GUI, automation, and durable hardware for superior application performance and high service availability.
For API management, the WebSocket, and the WebServer, NGINX provides a cost advantage, value addition, and effective support.
The product allows us to manage multiple networks and VLANs into a single box and add numerous web services and farms efficiently.
I find the best features to be the flexibility and ease of use.
 

Categories and Ranking

NGINX Plus
Ranking in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)
6th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
31
Ranking in other categories
Application Infrastructure (2nd)
Radware Alteon
Ranking in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)
5th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
47
Ranking in other categories
Web Application Firewall (WAF) (9th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) category, the mindshare of NGINX Plus is 8.1%, down from 9.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Radware Alteon is 4.7%, up from 3.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)
 

Featured Reviews

Ritesh-Bakhru - PeerSpot reviewer
Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation
NGINX cannot be a replacement for your traditional load balancer with what we use in the network today. However, with applications going toward microservices, NGINX is definitely a way forward. F5 has many traditional load balancing features, so they still need to bring some of those features to NGINX. NGINX is a very basic load balancer and cannot do as many customizations as F5. I think F5 is trying to implement those features in NGINX so they can improve the balancing on NGINX, but I think that will take some time. With the traditional F5 set up, the same OS can do load balancing, firewalls, and even policy enforcement. If we are able to bring some of those capabilities to NGINX, I think it would become a versatile solution and usage would definitely increase.
MaverickHurley - PeerSpot reviewer
Makes it easier and quicker to spin up services when we deploy applications
The most valuable aspect is the ability to customize the types of load-balancing scenarios needed for customized applications. Some of the load balancers on the market today are strictly out-of-hand load balancers for SSL or HTTP. Radware Alteon is most useful for customizing in-house applications based on ports and protocols. Another great feature is integrated application protection. There are many features you can activate. Some of them are add-ons, such as WAF protection, DDoS, rate-limiting, and connections-per-second per application. We also use Radware where we do all the programming.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
18%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Government
8%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Computer Software Company
14%
Government
11%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

Which is better - IIS or NGINX Plus?
IIS is a flexible, secure, and manageable web server to host anything on the web. IIS’s scalable and open architecture can handle the most demanding tasks. From media streaming to web applications,...
What do you like most about NGINX Plus?
It performs very well. That's one of the primary reasons we use NGINX.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NGINX Plus?
My use case involves using the free and open-source version of NGINX, making it cost-effective as I haven't incurred any costs.
What do you like most about Radware Alteon?
It saves us a lot of work in terms of management since it has tasks already defined automatically. That enables us to better administer our services. It is very dynamic and easy to administer.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Radware Alteon?
We have a three-year contract with Radware. It is beneficial to have a longer-term contract because you can obtain more discounts. It seems to be a much cheaper alternative. We use their Gel Elasti...
What needs improvement with Radware Alteon?
It is a fairly complete service and it is difficult for me to think of what can be improved. A feature that I would like to see included in the next version might be better analysis when working wi...
 

Also Known As

NGINX
Alteon, Radware AppWall
 

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Sample Customers

Locaweb, AppNexus, Wix, Reliam, Montana Interactive, MuleSoft, Warpwire, Discovery Education, InkaBinka, WordPress.com, Gogo, GOV.UK, NASA
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