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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AF5 Distributed Cloud WAF leverages F5's Advanced WAF technology, delivering WAF-as-a-Service and combining signature- and behavior-based protection for web applications. It acts as an intermediate proxy to inspect application requests and responses to block and mitigate a broad spectrum of risks stemming from the OW ASP Top 10, persistent and coordinated threat campaigns, bots, and layer 7 DoS.N/A

    Vultr

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AVultr is an independent cloud computing platform on a mission to provide businesses and developers around the world with unrivaled ease of use, price-to-performance, and global reach.

    $2.50

    per month

    Pricing
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)Vultr
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Block Storage
    $1
    per month
    Cloud Compute
    $2.50
    per month
    Object Storage
    $5
    per month
    Kubernetes Engine
    $10
    per month
    Load Balancers
    $10
    per month
    Managed Databases
    $15
    per month
    Optimized Cloud Compute
    $28
    per month
    Cloud GPU
    $90
    per month
    Bare Metal
    $120
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)Vultr
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Pricing is based on specifications chosen in each product category. Bandwidth is also included up to a certain amount per month.
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)Vultr
    Considered Both Products
    F5
    No answer on this topic
    Vultr
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    178 Answers
    91%
    Would buy again
    59 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    158 Answers
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    60 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    174 Answers
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    64 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    129 Answers
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    57 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    142 Answers
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    62 Answers
    Features
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)Vultr
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) and Vultr
    Feature
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
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    Ratings
    Vultr
    8.8
    62 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime00 Ratings9.555 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling00 Ratings9.047 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing00 Ratings9.334 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates00 Ratings9.243 Ratings
    Monitoring tools00 Ratings6.748 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images00 Ratings9.053 Ratings
    Operating system support00 Ratings9.358 Ratings
    Security controls00 Ratings8.651 Ratings
    Automation00 Ratings8.741 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)Vultr
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    IBM Cloud Object Storage
    Score9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF
    Score9.4 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF
    Score9.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)Vultr
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (180 ratings)
    8.9
    (65 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.7
    (11 ratings)
    7.2
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    7.9
    (6 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.7
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.7
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    8.9
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.7
    (2 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.2
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.7
    (2 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.7
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.7
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)Vultr
    Likelihood to Recommend
    F5
    It is doing its job effectively, and its scalability is superb. So, if you have a mixed environment with cloud and on-premise systems to protect this product, provide a solution to the challenge. However, its management is more suited to DevOps teams rather than to the ones responsible for on-premise systems, making the management a bit more complex.
    Incentivized
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    Vultr
    Vultr is amazing for anyone who needs a server and wants to spend time taking care of it, or for someone who wants in on it. WordPress Minecraft kids can use Votr. The scenario is not as appropriate for the people who do not have as much technical knowledge and capacity and don't want to invest in it, not because of Votr itself, but because VPS is not kids' play. Even though we have a Minecraft server and they're quite easy, there will come a time when, if you put your business infrastructure inside Vultr or any VPS, you need to take care of it. Otherwise, it will have a problem.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    F5
    • Layer seven attacks are becoming far more common. Traditionally it was always layered three, layer four, where you get an additional firewall, but with the application layer attacks become more frequent, more popular, et cetera. So having the web application firewall protecting us, and then with the recent Log4j, that's the most recent use case when it gave us that instant level of protection whilst we remediated the Log4j that we had that and the F5 Distributed Cloud WAF was protecting us.
    • I have a great relationship with the account manager, my account manager, and I think he drives the best price possible, um, for me, and I'm happy with that price.
    • F5 Distributed Cloud WAF is always innovating and evolving.
    • We run a very competitive proof value where we run numerous competitors against each other, and then we evaluate from that and then make the selection, and F5 Distributed Cloud WAF was the winner.
    Incentivized
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    Vultr
    • Email hosting is viable because they maintain a clean IP reputation.
    • They have an easy to use platform with console access.
    • They offer many useful OS choices to fit any project.
    • The price is fair and affordable.
    • They offer VPC for large projects.
    • I have never experienced down time, so the network is stable and well maintained.
    • Responsive and helpful support.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    F5
    • Lack of warnings, currently the console does not provide a warning when deleting key-value entry.
    • The web GUI could use some tweaking, currently no undo option when removing exclusion rules.
    • Configuration complexity, currently menus and options are hidden, making it hard to configure vs on prem.
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    Vultr
    • There have been times where my VPS is affected by a noisy nieghbour. Would be good to have this actively monitored and mitigated.
    • Being based in South Africa, it would be nice to have pricing parity options for weaker countries (even if for lower level servers). Sometimes I need throw away or temporary servers, but USD 5 is still expensive in weaker currencies, and can stack up quickly.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    F5
    We gave it an 8 because it protects our web apps well and is reliable. The WAF is flexible and meets most of our needs. It could improve in user interface and make integrations easier, but overall, it’s a solid and effective security tool for us.
    Incentivized
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    Vultr
    Just a great product with no bells and whistles, which is the advantage. We spend very little time learning and using Vultr and more time using the systems we have in Vultr to complete our tasks. Not having to worry about the IT overhead is huge and saves a great deal of time
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    F5
    I believe is a solution that was designed from the start to be simple and easy to use. Coming from Imperva, it simply eased the burden and complexity of managing and securing our apps on different environments (cloud and on-prem). It easy to scale and very quick to deploy (as a cloud waf should be), provide us with DevOps integrations, visibility and automatic insights from multiple events that guarantee peace of mind for us analysts and opp managers.
    Incentivized
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    Vultr
    easy to use and configure. great bang for the buck. I need an affordable solution to host in the cloud data from systems installed at our client's site with the ability to drill down and change the configuration remotely. Vultr enabled us to do that in an efficient and affordable way.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    F5
    Seems no issue
    Incentivized
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    Vultr
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    F5
    Unnoticed slowness
    Incentivized
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    Vultr
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    F5
    I never contacted support for this product.
    Incentivized
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    Vultr
    Vultr makes it easy to contact technical support. The techs are very competent. In a number of occasions they have bounced the responsibility back to me when they could have saved us all time and heartache by simply implementing the solution directly
    Incentivized
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    Online Training
    F5
    Online training saves me lots of time
    Incentivized
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    Vultr
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    F5
    Just make sure you origin servers have F5 IPs allowed.
    Incentivized
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    Vultr
    Vultr implementation seemed based on open-source tools and basic cloud principles - some things were more complicated to do compared with more developed cloud providers, but on the other hand it was more extensible by open-source tools.
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    F5
    The other one that I've used in the past, they're very similar and I haven't used it recently, so I can't do a side-by-side comparison today. But I can say that F5 does everything we want it to do consistent with what this other product did do and it's got enhanced features and of course we have a long history with F5 as a product set in general.
    Incentivized
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    Vultr
    Linode is a more old-school offering. Linode pricing model and infrastructure rely on classic Virtual Machines. What we like about Vultr is that they offer the same at the front, but in the back, the machines are much more flexible and can be tailor-made to our needs, which of course also impacts the costs of running the infrastructure.
    Incentivized
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    F5
    No answers on this topic
    Vultr
    Pricing is fair and did not increase
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    F5
    Dont see any issue so far
    Incentivized
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    Vultr
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    F5
    • The biggest gain for us was speed. Before F5 Distributed Cloud WAF, onboarding a new app to our WAF stack meant manual rule tuning, traffic sampling and regression testing. Right now, we spin up a service, tag it with the right policy and its ready (production ready) within hours
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    Vultr
    • We have experienced a 200% return on using Vultr products with a 100% Customer Satisfaction rating.
    • Vultr gives us the regions to deploy where our small business customers are located.
    • Vultr has helped us scale up our company and our cloud solutions.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) Screenshots

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    Vultr Screenshots

    Screenshot of Vultr's control panel helps users spend less time managing infrastructure.Screenshot of Vultr's services offer additional configuration and inside of the simplified control panel.Screenshot of a display of when peak activity happens on an application. The server health graphs provide insight from the moment the server is created.Screenshot of Vultr's interface, which allows users to deploy high performance servers worldwide from any device.Screenshot of how to reach the 24/7/365 technical support team that is available through Vultr's ticketing system.