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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

    Red Hat JBoss EAP

    Score8.5 out of 10
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    Pricing
    NGINXRed Hat JBoss EAP
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    NGINXRed Hat JBoss EAP
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    NGINXRed Hat JBoss EAP
    Considered Both Products
    F5
    Chose NGINX
    Other Web servers are either not performant enough or locked to a platform. The main competitor in my opinion is the Apache Web Server, that can be extended in functionality through a diverse set of modules to perform almost any task related to a network server. But at scale, I …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    49 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    45 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    50 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    34 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    43 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    NGINXRed Hat JBoss EAP
    Application Servers
    Comparison of Application Servers features of NGINX and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
    Feature
    NGINX
    8.8
    43 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
    6.8
    9 Ratings
    15% below category average
    IDE support8.127 Ratings6.09 Ratings
    Security management8.638 Ratings7.09 Ratings
    Administration and management8.939 Ratings8.09 Ratings
    Application server performance9.139 Ratings8.09 Ratings
    Installation9.040 Ratings5.09 Ratings
    Open-source standards compliance9.037 Ratings7.09 Ratings
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    Enterprises
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    Score8.5 out of 10
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    Score9.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    NGINXRed Hat JBoss EAP
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.3
    (72 ratings)
    8.1
    (8 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.3
    (25 ratings)
    8.5
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    -
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    8.7
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    5.2
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Ease of integration
    -
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    8.5
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    NGINXRed Hat JBoss EAP
    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.
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    Red Hat
    JBoss EAP is subscription based/open source platform. It's very reliable and great for deploying high transaction Java based enterprise applications. It integrates well with third party components like mod_cluster and supports popular Java EE web-based frameworks such as Spring, Angular JS, jQuery Mobile, and Google Web Toolkit.
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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)!
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    Red Hat
    • MOD_CLUSTER integration. JBoss EAP integrates pretty well with mod_cluster. This is an intelligent load balancer especially useful in highly clustered environments.
    • Supports enterprise-grade features such as high availability clustering, distributed caching, messaging etc.
    • Supports deployment in on-premise, virtual and hybrid cloud environments.
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    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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    Red Hat
    • Difficult to replicate configuration outside of a container environment
    • Still requires quite a bit of knowledge of the CLI
    • Integration with deployment tools requires CLI knowledge
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    Likelihood to Renew
    F5
    Great value for the product
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    Red Hat
    We are planning to migrate away from Jboss to Tomcat as Jboss has shown not interest in supporting OSGi which is heavily used at our shop
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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
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    Red Hat
    JBoss overall is easy to use. The installation and deployment of applications are quick. Documentations and support are also readily available.
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    Performance
    F5
    No answers on this topic
    Red Hat
    JBoss EAP is lightweight and doesn't really consumes much physical resources. It's high performing and suites well for high transaction Java enterprise applications. The out of box performance settings are not really great and you will have to configure the settings to suite your environment to leverage it's full benefits.
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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.
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    Red Hat
    Fast response.
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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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    Red Hat
    We selected JBoss because of compatibility with EJB's. We currently are trying to reduce our footprint and will highly consider using Tomcat.
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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.
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    Red Hat
    • Jboss EAP is easy to deploy and configure. This lead to lower cost and faster delivery.
    • Even though we have large number of machines running JBoss, we have only two Jboss Administrators. It doesn't requires too much administration and maintenance on daily basis and reduces number of administrators required for large implementations.
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    ScreenShots

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