NGINX LOAD BALANCER
Nginx vs SKUDONET
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Nginx
Nginx is free and open-source software, released under the terms of the 2-clause BSD license. A large fraction of web servers use Nginx, often as a load balancer.
SKUDONET
SKUDONET® began its public release in October 2010, and we have not stopped refining security, scalability, and high availability technology ever since.
Strengths & Weaknesses: Nginx & SKUDONET
See how SKUDONET and Nginx compare across some of the most critical ADC capabilities.
Nginx’s Strengths
- Customers have highlighted that the software is cost effective and significantly less than competitors.
- Is well-known and and popular with application developers and is widely deployed globally as reverse proxy and high-performance web server.
- Has a feature set and pricing model and roadmap well aligned to the needs of developers.
- Highly extensible with support for Ruby LUA and Perl and some Linux-based automations.
SKUDONET’s Strengths
- Disruptive vision with a stable growth as challengers in the ADC market, with an agile team and engaged community.
- Innovation driven with Open Source technology with no vendor lock-in and broad platforms integration (hardware, virtual, bare metal and cloud).
- Very high cost-effective solutions without limitation products and services, suitable for both midsize organizations and large enterprises.
- Investment in R&D to deliver a technology driven by easiness, performance and security.
- Is a complete ADC (Application Delivery Controller) that could manage all kinds of network protocols (UDP, TCP, HTTP/S, SCTP, SIP, T/FTP, …) but also with a combination of all of them simultaneously and multiport capabilities; and it’s not oriented to licensed features.
- Its operating system is fully optimized for networking so it is capable to move in layer 7 more than 140 thousand concurrent users and in layer 4 more than 10 million concurrent users with only 2 dedicated cores.
- Ability to create configuration backups, easy cluster configuration, automatic replication from one node to another and stateful cluster with real time sessions replications that permits a failover between nodes without losing any connection.
- Provides an integrated IPDS security system with real time black hole lists, DoS protection, black/white listing and protection of the most common network attacks.
- Provides a very UX graphic interface for both operators and network engineers in Angular 2 technology.
- Automation capabilities thanks to it’s fully programmable REST+JSON API.
Nginx’s Weaknesses
- Does not have a turnkey hardware appliance.
- Lacks expertise with and has a limited installed base within traditional mainstream enterprise environments.
- Lacks several generally available features of established ADC players.
- Lacks centralised capability to manage multiple ADC instances.
- Some customers have reported issues with commercial support when using traditional or legacy enterprises.
SKUDONET’s Weaknesses
- Young brand as an open source company and yet to develop a big influence than other more established vendors.
- Needs to develop a broader partnership network.
*Summarised from the latest Gartner ADC report.
BENEFITS
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Related Article
Migrating from Nginx Load balancer to SKUDONET ADC
Load balancing across multiple instances of an application is a great way to improve performance by reducing overload and latency, and increasing delivery by caching static resources.
Though Nginx serves a great purpose at web serving, the platform has lots of complexities. As traffic increases, it gets harder to load balance layer 4 and layer 7 traffic without sacrificing security. For this reason, you need a load balancer with more advanced features that offers control over a business application through an easy-to-access UI.
In this article, we will discuss how to transfer Nginx load balancer configurations to SKUDONET ADC.
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