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    NGINX

    Score9.1 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    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

    NGINX Plus

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ANGINX Plus is presented as a cloud‑native, easy-to-use reverse proxy, load balancer, and API gateway, from F5.

    $849

    per month billed annually

    Pricing
    NGINXNGINX Plus
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Team
    $849
    per month billed annually
    Advanced
    $2,099
    per month billed annually
    Enterprise
    Tiered Pricing
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    NGINXNGINX Plus
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
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    Community Pulse
    NGINXNGINX Plus
    Considered Both Products
    F5
    Chose NGINX
    Its like packed togother as a bundle
    Incentivized
    F5
    Chose NGINX Plus
    The API and dashboard alone make NGINX Plus a better choice.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    49 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    45 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    50 Answers
    83%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    34 Answers
    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    4 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    43 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    Features
    NGINXNGINX Plus
    Application Servers
    Comparison of Application Servers features of NGINX and NGINX Plus
    Feature
    NGINX
    8.8
    43 Ratings
    10% above category average
    NGINX Plus
    8.1
    6 Ratings
    2% above category average
    IDE support8.127 Ratings7.94 Ratings
    Security management8.638 Ratings7.94 Ratings
    Administration and management8.939 Ratings8.25 Ratings
    Application server performance9.139 Ratings7.94 Ratings
    Installation9.040 Ratings8.25 Ratings
    Open-source standards compliance9.037 Ratings8.25 Ratings
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    Score7.3 out of 10
    Oracle WebLogic Server
    Score7.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Red Hat JBoss EAP
    Score8.5 out of 10
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    Score9.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    NGINXNGINX Plus
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.3
    (72 ratings)
    8.2
    (6 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.3
    (25 ratings)
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
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    -
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    NGINXNGINX Plus
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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.
    Incentivized
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    F5
    Makes our life easy as application admins in securing our applications and making them accessible. We can easily add an application within a few minutes and define the backend servers right away.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    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)!
    Incentivized
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    F5
    • APIGW
    • Policy Enforcement
    • Centrally Manage API Traffic
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Cons
    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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    F5
    • An AI bot would be cool to help build config files
    • More webinars for advanced NGINX Plus would be great
    • GUI tool... might already be one available
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    F5
    Great value for the product
    Incentivized
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    F5
    No reason not to renew it, we are happy with it.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    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
    Incentivized
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    F5
    Very easy to use
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    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.
    Incentivized
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    F5
    We had an issue after upgrading from RHEL 7 to 8, and there were some issues that the security team imposed upon the platform with a scanning tool. We also had a VXLAN environment that was not properly sending a gratuitous arp to the network. NGINX support was instrumental to speedily resolving our issue.
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    F5
    The API and dashboard alone make NGINX Plus a better choice.
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    Return on Investment
    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.
    Incentivized
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    F5
    • We are planning by using NGINX it can greatly reduce our OPEX by 50% "just our own running APIGW" the cascading effects in the long run will be much more.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    NGINX Screenshots

    Screenshot of Overview of the NGINX Application PlatformScreenshot of NGINX Controller - MonitoringScreenshot of NGINX Controller - Configuration