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DigitalOcean Load Balancer vs F5 BIG-IP: What are the differences?
Developers describe DigitalOcean Load Balancer as "Scale your applications and improve availability across your infrastructure in a few clicks". Load Balancers are a highly available, fully-managed service that work right out of the box and can be deployed as fast as a Droplet. Load Balancers distribute incoming traffic across your infrastructure to increase your application's availability. On the other hand, F5 BIG-IP is detailed as "*It provides the availability, performance, and security *". It ensures that applications are always secure and perform the way they should. You get built-in security, traffic management, and performance application services, whether your applications live in a private data center or in the cloud.
DigitalOcean Load Balancer and F5 BIG-IP belong to "Load Balancer / Reverse Proxy" category of the tech stack.
According to the StackShare community, DigitalOcean Load Balancer has a broader approval, being mentioned in 4 company stacks & 36 developers stacks; compared to F5 BIG-IP, which is listed in 9 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.
Cons of DigitalOcean Load Balancer
- No Let's Encrypt wildcard certificate support1