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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Google Cloud DNS

    Score10 out of 10
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    NGINX, a business unit of F5 Networks, powers over 65% of the world's busiest websites and web applications. NGINX started out as an open source web server and reverse proxy, built to be faster and more efficient than Apache. Over the years, NGINX has built a suite of infrastructure software products o tackle some of the biggest challenges in managing high-transaction applications. NGINX offers a suite of products to form the core of what organizations need to create…N/A
    Pricing
    Google Cloud DNSNGINX
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Google Cloud DNSNGINX
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Features
    Google Cloud DNSNGINX
    Application Servers
    Comparison of Application Servers features of Google Cloud DNS and NGINX
    Feature
    Google Cloud DNS
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    Ratings
    NGINX
    8.8
    43 Ratings
    10% above category average
    IDE support00 Ratings8.127 Ratings
    Security management00 Ratings8.638 Ratings
    Administration and management00 Ratings8.939 Ratings
    Application server performance00 Ratings9.139 Ratings
    Installation00 Ratings9.040 Ratings
    Open-source standards compliance00 Ratings9.037 Ratings
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    Google Cloud DNSNGINX
    Small Businesses
    Amazon Route 53
    Score8.8 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Azure DNS
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    Score7.3 out of 10
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    Amazon Route 53
    Score8.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Google Cloud DNSNGINX
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (11 ratings)
    9.3
    (72 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    9.4
    (2 ratings)
    8.3
    (25 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.5
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Google Cloud DNSNGINX
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Google
    Google cloud is well suited to access and collaborate on documents where more than 2 people are required to contribute and in instances where feedback from individuals is captured on the document itself. If a team is working on an end of year report for funders, a few key members may need to finalise a report by offering suggestions that can be viewed and resolved by other team members. Housing documents on Google Cloud is the most appropriate platform I have ever used for tasks like these. If minimal collaboration needs engagement from just 2 individuals, it may be easier to simply email the information between each other, rather than using time to create a folder, ensure access control and upload the information to Google Cloud for collaborative input
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    F5
    Nginx is well-suited for any web server scenarios, such as web applications, backend or reverse proxy for both application and HTTP requests, and distribution. It is less appropriate for Windows-based applications that run directly on a Windows Server host. In any case, it is very easy to manage, through separate conf files for each application or site you want to host with it.
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    Pros
    Google
    • Interface is user friendly
    • It is safe , Secure and reliable
    • It has lower pricing plans
    • They have good customer support
    • They do have good documentation to have fair ideas on their offerings
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    F5
    • Very low memory usage. Can handle many more connections than alternatives (like Apache HTTPD) due to low overhead. (event-based architecture).
    • Great at serving static content.
    • Scales very well. Easy to host multiple Nginx servers to promote high availability.
    • Open-Source (no cost)!
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    Cons
    Google
    • It is hard for first time user to get used to it.
    • Support is restricted for 3rd party services who uses it
    • Sometimes the support people take more than 24hrs to reply to our queries, But it is not for all issues.
    • Search function could have been made easy to search records
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    F5
    • Customer support can be strangely condescending, perhaps it's a language issue?
    • I find it a little weird how the release versions used for Nginx+ aren't the same as for open source version. It can be very confusing to determine the cross-compatibility of modules, etc., because of this.
    • It seems like some (most?) modules on their own site are ancient and no longer supported, so their documentation in this area needs work.
    • It's difficult to navigate between nginx.com commercial site and customer support. They need to be integrated together.
    • I'd love to see more work done on nginx+ monitoring without requiring logging every request. I understand that many statistics can only be derived from logs, but plenty should work without that. Logging is not an option in many environments.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    F5
    Great value for the product
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    Usability
    Google
    This is exceptionally simple to utilize in the event that you are as of now utilizing Google Cloud Services or you are important for the Google Ecosystem as of now. I accept this is likely the primary goal of Google Cloud DNS, to give a more complete set-up of devices to Google Cloud clients. Consequently, I would rate convenience a 9.
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    F5
    This tool is really easy to use and configure. Consumes very less system resources. It is highly modular and configurable. You can easily use it with other tools like certbot for SSLs. You can configure basic security with configuration and headers
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    Support Rating
    Google
    In the event that you are utilizing Google Cloud Platform as your cloud supplier, Google Cloud DNS is unquestionably the DNS supplier to utilize.
    I haven't required help for it yet, notwithstanding, in my experience, Google Support is incredible.
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    F5
    Community support is great, and they've also had a presence at conferences. Overall, there is no shortage of documentation and community support. We're currently using it to serve up some WordPress sites, and configuring NGINX for this purpose is well documented.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Google
    Amazon Route 53 offers almost equal or slightly more features than Google Cloud DNS; we selected Google Cloud DNS because the rest of our projects use Google Cloud Platform.
    Also, since AWS is a bigger service provider, their pricing is also higher; since Google Cloud DNS pricing is better, we went for it.
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    F5
    I have found that [NGINX] seems to perform better throughout the years with less issues although I've used Apache more. I would definitely recommend [NGINX] for any high volume site and I've seen this to usually be the case from most provided web hosts who will pick [NGINX] over alternatives
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    Return on Investment
    Google
    • We use GCP for all our projects so Google Cloud DNS fits perfectly
    • It is proving to scale well so good for us since we are a growing company
    • It is easy to use and doesn't require a separate team to maintain
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    F5
    • By using Nginx, we can host multiple web services on a single server, keeping our infrastructure costs lower.
    • Nginx maintains our HTTPS connections, allowing us to keep our promise to our customers that their data is safe in transit.
    • Due to Nginx's extremely low failure rate, our web addresses always return something meaningful, even when individual services go down. In sense, this means we are "always online" and allows us to maintain brand and support our customers even in the face of catastrophe.
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