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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
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    NGINX
    Free Trial
    Yes
    Free/Freemium Version
    Yes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    Yes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    NGINX
    Considered Both Products
    F5
    Chose NGINX
    Evolution and coupling with F5

    Evolución y acople con F5
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    One of the bests
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    We chose NGINX because, in our experience, NGINX is a Better product and does its core role
    Incentivized
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    All of those are paid solutions with very good features, but they also offer dedicated scenarios for web application hosting. If you run applications on on-premises web servers and don't have a Microsoft licence agreement, Nginx is a very good and reliable option, based on …
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    NGINX its part of Modular Solution and can be used integrated with XC and BIG IP
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    In our organization, we use different solutions depending on if the database is on premise or in the cloud. We went from multiple solutions across different departments towards a more consolidated model to achieve standardization and economies of scale. We’ve mainly moved …
    Incentivized
    Chose NGINX
    NGINX is more expensive than HA Proxy.
    Incentivized
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    The support and ability to provide near zero downtime for changes is a winner. The lightweight engine also helps reduce cost.
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    Costing and stability
    Incentivized
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    Easy to Install and configure.
    Pick the configuration dynamically without restarting
    All the configurations at one place
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    Its like packed togother as a bundle
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    Have not used anything further. Did table with the web service for ab it.
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    Chose NGINX
    NGINX is faster to deploy and it has minimal setup needs for our POCs over Apache Tomcat
    Incentivized
    Chose NGINX
    How does it compare? We use Apache ATP server and we also use Tom Cat also owned by Apache, but both Apache, ATP, and MKA. They are relatively older than GX and so they're one problem for Apache and MKA they need more power, more memory, and more space.
    Incentivized
    Chose NGINX
    NGINX have higher market share which obviously show to us it is the preferred choice of most of the customers. Both of platform competes in the Web and Application server areas, but due the security features of NGINX be more flexible this in my opinion makes more sense.
    Incentivized
    Chose NGINX
    It is like comparing a formula 1 car against a regular street car in terms of performance or installation simplicity
    Incentivized
    Chose NGINX
    Apache is a market leader but NGINX is new and has new features. Lightweight and can handle static requests. We use EC2 and I believe NGINX is more suited when it comes to scalability.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    49 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    45 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    50 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    34 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    43 Answers
    Features
    NGINX
    Application Servers
    Comparison of Application Servers features of NGINX
    Feature
    NGINX
    8.8
    43 Ratings
    10% above category average
    IDE support8.127 Ratings
    Security management8.638 Ratings
    Administration and management8.939 Ratings
    Application server performance9.139 Ratings
    Installation9.040 Ratings
    Open-source standards compliance9.037 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    NGINX
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.3
    (72 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    8.3
    (25 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    NGINX
    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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    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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    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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    Likelihood to Renew
    F5
    Great value for the product
    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
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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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    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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    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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