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F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition vs Wordpress on Amazon Linux comparison

 

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Executive Summary

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
5.7
F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition enhances performance and reduces costs by improving application uptime, security, and operational efficiency.
Sentiment score
7.5
WordPress on Amazon Linux boosts efficiency and client retention, lowering costs while enhancing SEO, deployment, and collaborative processes.
Overall, I can say the ROI includes a twenty-five to thirty percent cost reduction, with some areas achieving forty percent cost reduction in our expenses.
Network Architect at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
There is a significant performance improvement in the website and website speed.
IT consultant at Beginning Solutions IT
With F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition, we have not faced any RMAs, which has made a positive operational impact.
Senior Network And Security Engineer at Mobily
Hosting expenses drop by roughly 40 to 50 percent compared to our previous solution, translating to significant annual savings that we reinvest into product development and hiring.
AI Engineer at a educational organization with 51-200 employees
It also allowed us to build sites quickly, helping us attract more visitors to our website and thus increasing sales.
Automation Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Having Wordpress ready to be deployed in under ten minutes is something to be proud of.
SecOps Engineer at IriusRisk
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.5
F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition support is effective and knowledgeable, though off-hour delays and access issues occasionally occur.
Sentiment score
6.8
WordPress on Amazon Linux boasts highly rated support, with responsive resources and multiple channels like AWS support and community forums.
I would rate the customer support on a scale of one to ten as a perfect ten based on all of the experience I have had so far.
Senior Network And Security Engineer at Mobily
I rate customer support a 10 out of 10, as they are knowledgeable and provide straightforward troubleshooting.
Network Engineer at Thryv
Customer support for F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is excellent.
IT consultant at Beginning Solutions IT
Their response times are solid, and the technical expertise is top-notch.
AI Engineer at a educational organization with 51-200 employees
The AWS support team would contact us through messages or emails and resolve them easily.
Automation Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
There is no single dedicated support channel for Wordpress on Amazon Linux unless you purchase a premium AWS support plan.
Software Engineer at INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.7
F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition offers scalable, flexible resource expansion, supporting high availability and adaptability for increased traffic and demand.
Sentiment score
6.5
WordPress on Amazon Linux offers scalable, cost-effective solutions for mid-sized projects, but may not suit extremely high-traffic demands.
It is the most scalable and reliable system.
Cybersecurity Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Within ten minutes of time, we can scale and boot as many virtual machines as needed in the environment.
Network Architect at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Being a virtual edition, we were able to scale resources such as CPU, memory, and throughput based on our demand without major architectural changes.
Network Security Engineer at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
For companies scaling from 100 to 10,000, Wordpress is actually an ideal solution.
Automation Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
For larger workloads, Wordpress on Amazon Linux can scale effectively by using cloud-native components such as load balancing, caching layers, and external storage, which we can implement easily on AWS.
Software Engineer at INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING
Wordpress on Amazon Linux is as scalable as AWS solutions.
SecOps Engineer at IriusRisk
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.4
F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is highly stable, offering strong performance and security, with minimal downtime apart from updates.
Sentiment score
8.1
WordPress on Amazon Linux is highly stable and reliable, with excellent uptime and enhanced functionality through AWS integrations.
The load balancing module still performed admirably.
Sr network engineer at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
The performance increased significantly and the response times of the application improved.
Senior Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The uptime improvements with F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition are almost close to 100%, as it only goes down if a failover happens.
Sr. Consutant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
You have to be very mindful about the plugins you add, updates you do, and especially be cautious with unverified plugins as it can easily become unstable.
Automation Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Security and access control, performance, uptime, and AWS integrations are key strengths of running Wordpress on Amazon Linux.
Software Engineer at INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING
Amazon Linux itself is a lightweight, well-maintained operating system with regular security updates.
AI Engineer at a educational organization with 51-200 employees
 

Room For Improvement

F5 BIG-IP VE requires interface upgrades, better microservices support, improved logging, clearer licensing, easier upgrades, and enhanced Azure integration.
WordPress on Amazon Linux requires enhanced security, performance, usability, documentation, and compatibility, focusing on optimization, backups, and novice navigation.
The primary concern I noted regarding F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is its scalability during high-load situations.
Sr network engineer at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
It is a somewhat expensive solution, and the price needs to be improved based on what our customers have told us.
IT consultant at Beginning Solutions IT
With FortiWeb, we have a dashboard where I can check the policy status with just one click, and everything is easily accessible.
Senior Network And Security Engineer at Mobily
Wordpress is not actually suited for some tasks, especially with our LMS, as admin-side tasks such as adding new courses or changing course content used to take a lot of time, sometimes taking two or three minutes to reload or save simple content.
Automation Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Wordpress can be resource-intensive when many plugins or high traffic are involved.
Software Engineer at INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING
I believe it would be helpful to have more agnostic solutions available in the form of images on the Marketplace, which I would prefer to quickly deploy instead of manually deploying Wordpress services in Amazon Linux.
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited
 

Setup Cost

Enterprise users appreciate F5 BIG-IP VE's ROI and scalability, but licensing costs and pricing transparency remain concerns.
WordPress on Amazon Linux is cost-effective, easy to set up, and scales affordably without extra licensing fees.
F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition's pricing structure was significantly more advantageous and aligned with our budgetary considerations.
Sr network engineer at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
My experience with pricing and setup costs for F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition was mixed, as they do not have an option for 10 gig licensing, which was costly for us.
Analyst at Accenture
F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition solves a very significant problem of high availability and performance.
IT consultant at Beginning Solutions IT
With Wordpress, we saved money because we did not have to pay for products such as Framer or Webflow, which charge a ridiculous amount of money.
Automation Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was very straightforward since AWS Marketplace provides all necessary information.
SecOps Engineer at IriusRisk
This makes it a cost-optimized solution, and I do not need to invest much to get Wordpress on Amazon Linux website up and running.
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited
 

Valuable Features

F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition boosts user experience and efficiency with load balancing, security features, high availability, and cost reduction.
WordPress on Amazon Linux provides flexibility, scalability, and cost-effective management with extensive plugins, ideal for non-technical users.
F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition helped our customers increase the high availability and performance of their applications, specifically their web applications.
IT consultant at Beginning Solutions IT
If ten thousand, fifty thousand, or even a million people want to access the application simultaneously, we have configured auto-scalability.
Network Architect at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition has impacted my organization positively with cost savings by saving public IP addresses, and its performance and stability, which give almost 100% uptime for the application because we have high availability.
Sr. Consutant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Wordpress on Amazon Linux has positively impacted my organization because it allowed us to start new websites really easily, and when there was something to edit on our website, we did not need to go to developers to get it done. Anyone could do it with the Wordpress element editor.
Automation Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
From the Wordpress side, the most valuable features are the intuitive content management system, the large plugin and theme ecosystem, and the ability for non-technical users to manage content without developer involvement.
Software Engineer at INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING
Having a trusted source and ready-to-deploy Wordpress images has helped my workflow and my clients by speeding up deployment times and eliminating worries about the quality or security of the image.
SecOps Engineer at IriusRisk
 

Categories and Ranking

F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.0
Number of Reviews
29
Ranking in other categories
Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) (6th)
Wordpress on Amazon Linux
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
Operating Systems (OS) for Business (20th)
 

Mindshare comparison

F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition and Wordpress on Amazon Linux aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is designed for Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) and holds a mindshare of 1.3%.
Wordpress on Amazon Linux, on the other hand, focuses on Operating Systems (OS) for Business, holds 0.2% mindshare, up 0.0% since last year.
Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition1.3%
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)13.0%
NetScaler12.1%
Other73.6%
Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)
Operating Systems (OS) for Business Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Wordpress on Amazon Linux0.2%
Rocky Linux8.2%
Ubuntu Linux8.0%
Other83.6%
Operating Systems (OS) for Business
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2800392 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Architect at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Cloud deployment has simplified traffic distribution and now supports flexible multi-zone DR
Regarding F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition's improvement areas, the current dashboard is very useful, but I believe the registration process should be simplified in the virtual edition. Especially in the Azure environment, many features are not currently aligned and working with Azure. We need to make efforts to ensure it is well integrated with Azure. Currently, if we want to integrate route tables with the virtual F5 edition, we need to deploy scripting inside the virtual F5 instances, and then that script performs the virtual IP route table changes in the Azure environment. This feature should be auto-configured, and efforts are needed to ensure the virtual edition is very much aligned with the Azure environment. I am expecting this improvement in the next edition. The failover capability is also not as good as it should be. We have tested the failover functionality, and sometimes we have observed that failover fails. F5 does not successfully fail over to other instances perfectly, so that also needs to be improved. Security should also be enhanced, as in the past I have seen some security loopholes. Tightening of security should be included in the new software. These improvements should be present in near future editions.
Harshwardhan Gullapalli - PeerSpot reviewer
AI Engineer at a educational organization with 51-200 employees
Hosting client portals has boosted compliance workflows and delivers faster document access
Overall, it is a solid combination, but there are a few areas where improvements could help. First, having documentation and tutorials specific to Wordpress on Amazon Linux could be more comprehensive. While there is plenty of general Wordpress on Amazon Linux and Amazon Linux documentation, having more unified guides that walk through best practices for this specific pairing would be helpful for teams getting started. Second, a native performance monitoring dashboard built into Wordpress on Amazon Linux would be valuable. Right now, you need to integrate CloudWatch separately, and having it more seamlessly integrated out of the box would cut setup time. Third, automated backup and disaster recovery features could be simplified. We had to build custom scripts for this, so if Wordpress on Amazon Linux offered more native plug-and-play backup solutions tied to AWS, that would reduce complexity. Fourth, better out-of-the-box security hardening would be beneficial. While Amazon Linux and Wordpress on Amazon Linux are secure, having more automated security configurations pre-applied during initial setup would help teams avoid common misconfigurations.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
8%
Construction Company
33%
Manufacturing Company
15%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise19
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Large Enterprise18
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition?
The integration capabilities of the product are easy to use, and there is no complexity involved in it.
What needs improvement with F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition?
Improvements for F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition could include a more straightforward process for major updates where we could pre-schedule upgrades to avoid downtime.
What advice do you have for others considering F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition?
F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition did not impact anything positively, as during core network activities, backend servers stopped responding due to being legacy servers, which may create issues. F5 BIG-IP V...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Wordpress on Amazon Linux?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was that the setup cost was straightforward and easy. Licensing is very affordable, and the cost is also relatively very competitive.
What needs improvement with Wordpress on Amazon Linux?
One way Wordpress on Amazon Linux can be improved is that the GUI has not changed much in years and could afford to be made more modern. I would like to add that it would be great to have more secu...
What is your primary use case for Wordpress on Amazon Linux?
Wordpress on Amazon Linux is the content management system my team uses to build, develop, and update our company website. Wordpress is a very popular, mature program with many plugins and integrat...
 

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