Apache Tomcat vs Nginx

• Deploying and un deploying .war files is simple using either tomcat manager or the tomcat scripts
• Setting up is extremely easy, does not take much experience to set up the first time
• Startup and shutdown scripts are easily customizable.

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• Static assets caching
• Extremely simply configurable proxy solution
• Load balancing is awesome
• The robustness is on the top

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• Using tomcat manager to troubleshoot is not very informative. Error messages are vague, you have to dig into log files for more information about the problems.
• Is great for simple web applications, but may not work for heavy development which may require a full J2EE stack, might like JBoss better.
• Security in tomcat is not straightforward, as I discovered that you have to understand how to set up realms in tomcat in order to hash passwords, which I was not overly familiar with, which is a big deal when setting up users in the tomcat-users.xml file.

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• Nginx has some peculiarities or "gotchas" that take getting used to.
• Nginx could improve at SSL handling.
• Nginx is the best asynchronous server but I could see using Apache for process-based (threaded) serving of dynamic assets as a back-end behind Nginx. So I don't think Nginx should necessarily improve in this regard as much as it's choosing the right tool for the job—Nginx for static serving, other, process-based servers for dynamic serving.

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• It has simplified administration efforts, thus saving much time to focus on other projects and issues.
• It saves us in costs, as there are no licensing requirements.
• It gives us the ability to manage all of our java applets in one place, so as to be able to host both development and production systems on one server.

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• Nginx has helped numerous web properties for various clients scale and be served to 100s of thousands of users. It has been an excellent tool in all cases where I have used it.
• Nginx has slowed down development on a few occasions due to strange gotchas, but these are minor in comparison to the gains in time to market due to easy configuration and a large customer base with many answers to existing issues, plus excellent getting started guides.
• Nginx has overall had a very positive impact on all of the projects where I have used it by having easy, rapid integration with preferred tools and platforms like Ruby on Rails.

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