NGINX Review
Using NGINX for some Reverse Proxy services for security purposes. Helps to mask the IP address of our true IP Address. Looking to see …
Overview
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…
Recent Reviews
Awards
Products that are considered exceptional by their customers based on a variety of criteria win TrustRadius awards. Learn more about the types of TrustRadius awards to make the best purchase decision. More about TrustRadius Awards
Popular Features
- Installation (18)9.494%
- Application server performance (18)8.686%
- Administration and management (18)8.080%
- Security management (18)8.080%
Reviewer Pros & Cons
Pricing
N/A
Unavailable
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…
Entry-level set up fee?
- Setup fee optional
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.nginx.com/products/pricing
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Would you like us to let the vendor know that you want pricing?
25 people also want pricing
Alternatives Pricing
What is Zend Server?
Zend Server, developed by Zend, acquired by Rogue Wave Software in 2017 and then by Perforce in 2019 with that company's acquisition of Rogue Wave, is an All-in-One PHP Application Server that aims to improve web app deployment, debugging, and monitoring. Additionally, ZendPHP Enterprise offers…
Product Demos
CVE-2016-1247 Nginx (Debian-based) Vulnerability - Root Priv. Escalation PoC Exploit Demo
YouTube
Nginx Web Server configuration with Examples
YouTube
Load Balancing with NGINX
YouTube
Access your internal websites! Nginx Reverse Proxy in Home Assistant.
YouTube
How to Serve Static Content
YouTube
Using NGINX Open Source for Video Streaming and Storage
YouTube
Features
Return to navigation
Product Details
- About
- Integrations
- Competitors
- Tech Details
- FAQs
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.
NGINX offers a suite of products to form the core of what organizations need to create applications with performance, reliability, security, and scale. This includes NGINX Plus for load balancing, reverse proxy, and application delivery controller features, NGINX App Protect for high performance web application firewall security, and NGINX Unit to run the application code, all monitored and managed by the NGINX Controller.
- NGINX Plus: An all‑in‑one load balancer, web server, and content cache.
- NGINX Controller: Centralized monitoring and management for NGINX Plus.
- NGINX App Protect: Web application firewall, powered by F5
- NGINX Unit: Lightweight application server, with support for multiple languages and a dynamic REST API‑driven configuration
- NGINX Ingress Controller: Traffic management solution for cloud‑native apps in Kubernetes and containerized environments.
- NGINX Service Mesh: Lightweight, Turnkey, Developer-Friendly Service Mesh Using NGINX Plus as an Enterprise Sidecar
NGINX Features
Application Servers Features
- Supported: IDE support
- Supported: Security management
- Supported: Administration and management
- Supported: Application server performance
- Supported: Installation
- Supported: Open-source standards compliance
Additional Features
- Supported: NGINX: Fast, light web server and reverse proxy
- Supported: NGINX Plus: All‑in‑one Load Balancer, Web Server, and Content Cache
- Supported: NGINX Plus: Security controls, High Availability, Dynamic Modules
- Supported: NGINX App Protect: Layer 7 Attack Protection
- Supported: NGINX Controller: Centralized Traffic Management and Monitoring
- Supported: NGINX Controller: Role-based Access Controls
- Supported: NGINX Unit: Multi-language Application Server
NGINX Screenshots
NGINX Integrations
- Microsoft Azure
- Mirantis Kubernetes Engine
- Kubernetes
- ForgeRock Identity Platform
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
- DeviceAtlas
- Red Hat OpenShift
- Google Cloud Platform
- OpenStack
- Cedexis
- IDFConnect
- PingIdentity
- Phusion Passenger
- Stealth Security
NGINX Competitors
NGINX Technical Details
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
|---|---|
| Mobile Application | No |
Frequently Asked Questions
Microsoft IIS and HAProxy Community Edition are common alternatives for NGINX.
Reviewers rate Installation highest, with a score of 9.4.
The most common users of NGINX are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
NGINX Customer Size Distribution
| Consumers | 0% |
|---|---|
| Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 0% |
| Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 50% |
| Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 50% |
Comparisons
Compare with
Reviews and Ratings
(137)Attribute Ratings
Reviews
(1-25 of 48)Companies can't remove reviews or game the system. Here's why
March 22, 2024
NGINX Review
Using NGINX for some Reverse Proxy services for security purposes. Helps to mask the IP address of our true IP Address. Looking to see what more we can do with NGINX like its load balancing function and web functions.
Moreover, with the new release of NGINX One. Could see what suits our needs
- Easy to configure
- Easy to install
- Not complex
- Ridiculously easy
- A lot of users therefore alotnof guides online
- More functions for windows
- Maybe could add replication or sync to the reverse proxy
March 22, 2024
NGINX review
We use it mainly as an API Gateway Load Balancer
- Load balancing
- Can be quite inflexible at times
March 22, 2024
NGINX review
Use as a reverse proxy and web server.
- Load balancing
- Request routing
- Zero downtime
- Easy config
- SSL offloading
March 22, 2024
great
Apache web server has replaced by NGINX server. could see potential benefits by using this product instead of apache. Infact its quite convenient to change the configuration sand easily scalable
- flexible maintenance
- easily scalable
- SAML idp integration and routing
March 22, 2024
Recommended product
Load balancing of the mobile trading application. The. Challenge is skill. To manage the appliance
- Open source
- Rich of feature
- Stability
- Web gui interface
- Users familiar
- Ease of management
March 22, 2024
NGINX the champion
Using as a reverse Proxy
Using as a cache
Using SSL Offloading
Using as a cache
Using SSL Offloading
- Reverse Proxy
- Caching
- SSL Offloading
- Response Headers Masking
- Not all headers are being masked in basic NGINX.
March 22, 2024
Solution for Reverse Proxy
We use as a Reverse Proxy
- Reverse Proxy
- SSL
- Caching
- CIPHERS
- Should implement in Windows
- Web Interface
February 13, 2024
NGINX Forward Proxy is the way to go!
We use the NGINX forward proxy manager to manage a few sites coming into the network. all websites with different domains.
- reading TCP headers for forwarding
- forwarding traffic flawlessly
- Let's Encrypt compatibility
- add load balancer into basic proxy manager
- better initial SSL documentation
I use NGINX when building POC labs in Azure and AWS to demonstrate IaaS solutions. Both as a simple test web server or as a reverse proxy, depending on the specifics in the POC.
- Works great to provide a test web page for cloud designing POCs
- With the limited small usage we do with NGINX, its hard to say it needs any improvement for our purposes.
September 15, 2023
NGINX Review
We use it as the ATTP server and it is one of the very popular ATTP servers on the market. It's free and it has really good speed compared with the all-party ATTP server.
- The good thing about this product compared with other ATTP server the performance speed.
- No, I think at least compared with other products, this ATTP server is really good.
September 15, 2023
NGINX Review
I use it for mostly host websites or anything that needs to be host. So we have our on-prem server where we host ourselves.
- Apache and engines are both. So I do like to use engines better. I'm using it from the college, so I prefer to use that one as it is open source.
- As it is open-source, I would like a box there, to fix those issues, and report to us so that we can install the updated version. So apart from that, I haven't faced anything but looks good.
September 15, 2023
NGINX Review
So we use it in our app development. We use NGINX servers for deploying our apps. We don't have any challenges so far. We are pretty much happy with whatever NGINX provides.
- I'm not the direct user.
- I don't really see any disadvantages to using this product. It has all the things that we need, so we never had any complaints about using NGINX.
April 27, 2023
Nginx is a powerful tool
We use nginx as a reverse proxy for web traffic for security reasons. We have also used it as an http cache.
- Good reverse proxy
- Load balancer
- Http cache
- Provide recommendations for improving performance
- Provide flags on misconfigurations
April 27, 2023
NGINX simple review
We used it to allow our internal applications to be accessed by the Internet, this allows the application to be securely accessed through public networks since we secure the https access through public certificated issued by our organization. It simplifies the management of apps published to the Internet.
- Secure application access.
- Easy to implement.
- OS flexibility.
- Configuration management
- Automatic updates
April 27, 2023
!yxorp esrever a sa XNIGN gnisU
We use NGINX as a reverse proxy to protect internal applications and to implement web APIs, which allows us to securely connect end users, apps and other systems with our back end systems. The NGINX servers are easily deployed in our DMZ, they run reliably and use very little resources. I definitely recommend NGINX.
- reverse proxy
- public and secure REST API
- The setup under Windows server could use a GUI
April 03, 2023
Can't get a better backend load balancer than nginx
Most of our applications are container based and load balanced. Having multiple servers in the backend is challenging and using an external load balancer makes you lose control of the mechanics. That is where NGINX comes into picture. We create config files on our EC2 instances and control how the load balancer functions via NGINX
- Load balancer
- Load sharing
- Web server
- Reverse Proxy
- Community support is limited
November 29, 2022
NGNIX saves the day
I leverage the NGINX proxy to forward external client traffic thru our AWS infrastructure.
- Proxy the traffic
- Scales quickly
- Light weight
- UI to manage NAF rules
November 29, 2022
NGINX to the rescue!
NGINX routes external traffic from external clients to our infrastructure application endpoints. It solves scalability and availability issues and allows us to get off legacy solutions.
- Routes ingress web traffic
- Scales effectively
- Leverages native AWS services
- Rule Management
- Ease of implementation
- Build automation
November 29, 2022
NGINX all the way (at least for start ups)
NGINX is a gate to our application; it is a great open-source product, one of the best out there.
- Speed
- Configurability
- Cost
- Marketing
July 25, 2022
NGINX the Web Server you can count on!
We use NGINX to host web servers. It is great for serving static files and if we need a proxy server to host microservices running on different ports.
- Host Web Sites
- Use it as a proxy server
- COnfiguring several virtual hosts.
- Improve on the official docs to have several example scenarios.
- Improve on the error messaging.
- Make it easier to host several PHP versions on the same machine.
July 25, 2022
NGINX High Performance Web Server
We currently use NGINX for a high-powered highly configurable web server. The ability to protect and reduce the attack surface area of our primary webservers was our primary need. NGINX was chosen to meet internal demands for a highly flexible webserver that can have multiple nodes and redirect/proxy traffic to protected servers.
- Allows for multiple domain names.
- Can be created as a proxy that forwards traffic to back-end servers.
- Allows for SSL offloading and protection.
- Allows for Load balancing between multiple back-end servers.
- Currently, there isn't a GUI interface which is both a good thing (for reduced footprint) and a perceived bad thing if console familiar users are not available.
We use NGINX as our web-facing server, behind which we have a collection of services serving various parts of our application. NGINX helps us map a single API over a variety of services, and make our API endpoints consistent across the various services. Nginx also helps with uptime, by helping us switch between various instances of the services in near real-time.
- Extremely high-performing -- NGINX is never a bottleneck.
- Easy to configure -- the configuration language is easy to learn, and allows very flexible scenarios.
- Lightweight -- it's a very small service, which is never a memory or CPU hog.
- Management tools -- Nginx has good errors, but it would be nice if it plugged into our cloud hosting infrastructure a little easier.
- Configuration error detection -- for more complex configurations, sometimes Nginx isn't overly helpful when telling us what's wrong.
May 07, 2021
Nginx outperforms other web servers
Many [NGINX] servers are used across the organization to load balance and serve content before hitting our nodejs express rest api backends or our node react express frontends. It helps maintain uptime when we encounter strange deployment errors that can take out one of our servers. In my experience is has provided amazing throughput with very little configuration.
- Performance
- Reliability
- Low configuration
- Rarely used in development
- Difficult to tell if it changed values from a server behind it
We currently use Nginx for our ingress layer into our Kubernetes cluster as well as for setting up simple reverse proxies.
- Reverse proxy
- Simple web server
- Kubernetes ingress
- Complex confusing configuration.
- Advanced features are paywalled.
- No great way to generate configurations with input.
NGINX is basically used as a server for web applications as implemented in our organization, NGINX helps us solve many problems like accelerated reverse proxying with caching and the best for static content loading. The other cool security feature that we take the most advantage of is that NGINX Limiting the number of simultaneous connections or requests coming from one address which protects our app from attacks against our infrastructure.
- Limiting the number of simultaneous connections or requests coming from one address
- Prompt Static content delivery
- code caching and reverse proxy server
- NJS Scripting Language.
- Much more areas of application
- A bit hard to implement.