Why F5 and Only F5 not any other vendor
Updated February 26, 2025
Why F5 and Only F5 not any other vendor
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with F5 BIG-IP
We extensively use F5 BIG-IP to fulfill our load balancing requirements for many of our applications. It is also help us to integrate with our online virtual waiting room as well as 3rd party bot mitigation. We also use F5 HTTP_RESPONSE to manipulate http headers to make our applications secure and compliant
Pros
- iRules
- Modifying HTTP Response
- Persistence to backend servers
Cons
- GUI interface
- for automation purpose, more documentation and examples for Terraform
- more examples of AS3
- F5 stability make our business stable
- F5 always perform well during our peak season where we pass gig of data
F5 BIG-IP's iRules are way superior and robust
Do you think F5 BIG-IP delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with F5 BIG-IP's feature set?
Yes
Did F5 BIG-IP live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of F5 BIG-IP go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy F5 BIG-IP again?
Yes
Using F5 BIG-IP
10 - SRE, NRE, NOC
10 - System Admin, Network Administrator and Network Operations Personal
- Load balance Servers in on-prem
- Load Balance Servers in AWS Cloud
- Using iRules, enable proper routing as well as patch any security holes in the backend servers
- Extensively uses iRules for Security and Compliance related issues
- Integrate with Queue-IT for Virtual Waiting Room to manage high demand ticketing events
- Integrate with Human Security for Bot Protection and Code defender
- may explore as WAF
- as Bot Protection
- In the cloud and load balance across regions
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