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
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What are NGINX's top competitors?
Microsoft IIS and HAProxy Community Edition are common alternatives for NGINX.
What is NGINX's best feature?
Reviewers rate Application server performance highest, with a score of 9.3.
Who uses NGINX?
The most common users of NGINX are from B2B.