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What is NGINX?

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.

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Screenshot of Overview of the NGINX Application Platform

NGINX Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features NGINX has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 184 ratings of NGINX's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Application server performance

    Speed of deploy time, initialization time and other performance metrics

    Category average: 8.6

  • Installation

    Ease of download and installation

    Category average: 8

  • Open-source standards compliance

    Support for open-source standards like J2EE

    Category average: 7.7

Areas for Improvement

  • Administration and management

    Ease of management via administration console

    Category average: 7.6

  • Security management

    Integrated security management for applications

    Category average: 8.3

  • IDE support

    Support for a number of different programming environments or IDEs

    Category average: 8

Who Buys & Uses NGINX

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What users are saying about NGINX.
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Pros

  • Effective load balancing for traffic distribution
  • Reliable reverse proxy capabilities for request routing
  • High stability and performance for application delivery

Cons

  • Complex configuration for initial setup and advanced features
  • Limited out-of-the-box monitoring and observability options
  • Lack of readily available Kubernetes charts

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Incentivized
Miguel Abbruzzese
Ciso in Engineering at Link (501-1000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it as an API gateway and CDN, simplifying our interaction.

Lo usamos como api gateway y cnd , simplificando nuestra interacción

Pros

  • Api gateway
  • Cnd
  • Concurrency

Cons

  • Statistics

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Apache HTTP Server

NGINX user

Incentivized
James Chua
IT Engineer in Engineering at LG (51-200 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, We need to secure the application gateway, using NGINX waf to protect the application

Pros

  • In my opinion, a secure application is done well in NGINX
  • In my experience, NGINX does stable well
  • In my experience, NGINX does reliable well

Usability

Top-tier Reliability and Performance

Incentivized
Roland Araza
Technical Delivery Manager in Engineering at Meralco (10,001+ employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, We use NGINX as our primary load balancer across all our product line integrations.

Pros

  • I think Performance is done well in NGINX
  • I think Quality is done well in NGINX
  • I think Reliability is done well in NGINX

Cons

  • I think there is room for improvement in NGINX because I Would love to see more AI functionalities for this product

Return on Investment

  • The impact NGINX has on our organization's overall business objectives is NGINX's primary function to split load effectively.

Usability

Good product

Incentivized
Zhe Cheng
Associate Director in Information Technology at CGS International Securities (501-1000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, we Use NGINX as Load balancer

Pros

  • In my opinion, Performance is done well in NGINX
  • In my experience, NGINX is Stable
  • I think NGINX is Easy to configure and troubleshooting

Return on Investment

  • The impact NGINX has on our organization's overall business objectives is that, in our experience, NGINX's ROI is good, valuable

Usability

NGINX

Incentivized
Verified User
Team Lead in Engineering (1001-5000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

For load balancing and reverse proxying.
These are the two needs we must address to ensure high availability and load management during periods of high concurrency. Our backends are distributed across clustered servers with geographical distribution, making an effective high availability and load balancing system imperative. That's where NGINX comes in.

Para balanceo de carga y de proxy reverse.
Son las dos necesidades que tenemos que cubrir para asegurar alta disponibilidad t control de carga en momentos de alta concurrencia. Tenemos distribuidos los backend en conjuntos de servidores (clusterizados) con distribución geográfica de estos backend y se hace imperativo contar con un efectivo sistema de ha y distribucion de carga. Ahi existe NGINX

Pros

  • Load distribution
  • Backend health check
  • High availability
  • Distribucion de carga
  • Chequeo de salud de los backend
  • Alta disponibilidad

Cons

  • Health check-up
  • Load distribution
  • Chequeo de salud
  • Distribucion de carga

Return on Investment

  • Ease of implementation
  • Ease of horizontal scaling
  • Facilidad de implantación
  • Facilidad de escalado horizontal

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Apache HTTP Server

Other Software Used

Apache Tomcat

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