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Nginx from the company of the same name in San Francisco, California, supports an application infrastructure.https://media.trustradius.com/product-logos/uZ/Gw/32GN4B930X4U.PNGNGINX IncNginx - Best Web Server for High-Traffic Websites2019-02-04T18:07:45.874ZWe use Nginx to serve static content for a few of our applications. Nginx is very effective for us because it's free, scales very well, and can handle millions of requests a second. It has made several of our websites noticeably faster. In addition, its ability to act as a Proxy/Reverse Proxy has been instrumental in fulfilling our specific web hosting needs.,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)!,Less community support compared to Apache
Less extensive list of modules compared to Apache,10,Our websites are noticeably faster, causing an increase in customer satisfaction.
Nginx has such a low memory/resource footprint that we save money from not needing multiple large, expensive servers.
Ability to load balance traffic, have server-redundancy, and have high-availability allows for 100% uptime and provides cost-effective solutions to alternatives that can cost a lot.,Apache Web ServerGabriel SamarooNginx is the best way to proxy for most cases today on commodity hardware2019-01-23T20:10:55.819ZWe use Nginx widely as our primary way of proxying and SSL termination. Specifically, our highly-available architecture used for both a bidding environment and serving ads are designed with Nginx. We have had success building out some applications with deeper Nginx integration as well, our own home-built CDN.,SSL handling
Configuration is very unique, and has a learning curve, but powerful and generally clear
Very active user groups
Decent customer support,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.,9,When we first migrated our primary bidding environment architecture to Nginx, it was under duress due to Apache's inability to keep up when we consolidated away from an HAproxy model to a central HTTP proxy. So we even when we did not know what we were doing, we were able to make it work in a bad situation, and everyone was quite happy.
The biggest complaint I have is that I find the module compilation requirements for nginx+ rather burdensome. If we pay for Nginx+, I'd love to see then have pre-built modules for ready for each release of more modules. We are spending our own time engineering an in-house solution for module testing for nginx+ releases, which is disappointing.
I've also, as the primary Nginx person at my organization, inserted my expertise into other projects, and have saved our company lots of money getting rid of big $$$ appliances for general SSL proxying.
Speaking of Nginx replacing SSL appliances, we had an instance where we had to suddenly enable elliptic-curve SSL ciphers and our big $$$ appliances (you know who they are), were falling over. Even their SSL accelerator cards, after all, are just a few extra cores to process SSL. But in an environment of our size, we use DNS to spread the load to hundreds of frontend proxies with dozens of cores each to spread this load out, all at a lower price than ONE of the appliance pairs running Nginx. We couldn't even tell the change in load in our Nginx architecture when we enabled the ciphers.,Apache Web Server and NetApp FAS series,HAProxy, NetApp SnapMirror, NetApp V-Series, Couchbase Data Platform, Oracle Java SEL Matthew BlancettNginx is the web server you’re looking for at the right price2019-05-16T01:24:00.235ZWe use Nginx for all of our web services, whether it be straight up websites or applications. It’s open source (free), but so easy to implement while being incredibly powerful.,Nginx can be set up to serve up a web site in minutes.
Nginx is easily customizable. You can easily serve over HTTPS, have custom directories, or proxy upstream servers.
Nginx has great support and documentation, even for the free version.,I had some initial problems proxying PHP.
It’s easy to over complicate your setup.
Like many applications, some of the error codes can be pretty ambiguous.,9,Having such a powerful open source solution allows us a lot of versatility we wouldn’t have otherwise.
Nginx’s versatility allows us to be really efficient, since we can use one well known tool for multiple solutions.,Microsoft IIS and Apache Web Server,Sublime Text, CentOS, SlackTom ErdmanFast and configurable2019-02-08T21:50:06.134ZEver since discovering Nginx as an alternative to Apache, it has been my web server of choice for a variety of purposes, whether it be creating a versatile development server accommodating a variety of platforms across many different sites, or setting up a high-speed scalable server with integration with a popular content management system for a client. The powerful yet flexible configuration options of Nginx makes it straightforward to configure a server for a multitude of different tasks, and a clear choice for almost any situation.,Powerful and flexible configuration
Low resource usage with low overhead
Well-supported on major operating systems,Less well-known in communities than Apache, making it more difficult to find documentation and support
Requires manual configuration for integration with some popular CMS,9,Easy to write configuration from the ground-up and fine-tune to suit the needs of each site.
Able to make use of several features and integrations to drastically reduce site load time.
Reduces cost of resources needed to run servers.,Apache Web Server,PhpStormShea BungeCreate a service Mesh inside your network using Nginx nodes.2019-02-18T19:01:37.149ZNginx is present at different levels across my projects. Sometimes is just a Web Server, others a Load Balancer or an API proxy with SSL/TLS management, it's just great that's so lightweight that you can deploy as many instances as you want, for different purposes and create a services mesh inside your organization's network.,Low memory footprint, high performance, low maintenance.
Modular, configurable, flexible. You can create totally different nodes from the same Nginx version. I.e. you can use 1 instance to run a Web Server and another to run a gRPC rate limiter.
Nginx Plus suite is awesome! and has really nice features for high end users as well. It complements really well with the core, open source products.
Great ecosystem for API and Microservices management and governance
Excellent Web Server, of course!,Some parts or modules form Nginx Plus suite would be really useful in the Open Source world. But it's just about paying the fee or implement it yourself though.
No .htaccess support (https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/start/topics/examples/likeapache-htaccess/)
Low diversity and extension of modules.,10,In one cloud provider, a simple (few directives, relatively low traffic) Load Balancer service would cost USD 25 per month, while the cheapest VM instance costs USD 5 per month. I have set up a Linux instance with just Nginx running as a Load Balancer with automatic SSL configuration using Let's Encrypt and it works pretty well for 1/5 of the price and I got my cheap high availability setup.
Web server memory usage stopped being an issue when moved from Apache to Nginx.,Apache Web Server, Microsoft IIS and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform,Ubuntu Linux, PostgreSQL, RedisLeonel QuinterosOnly possible choice to serve our business2019-02-08T23:14:48.377ZWe use Nginx as a load balancer and as a reverse proxy for all of our web services. We use it to serve NodeJs applications, REST APIs and Angular front.,Great community
A lot of documentation available
High-performing
Easy to configure
Cache static assets
Multi-threaded support,A user-friendly UI console to test some configurations in a test server,10,Our web servers are more efficient in memory
Finely configured, latency is very low.
Unlike Apache server, few manual restarts are required,Apache Web Server,Node, Ubuntu Linux, Microsoft Visual Studio CodeGregory PecqueurNginx - great alternative for Apache Server2019-02-08T22:07:51.989ZNginx is an excellent choice for any size company, be it a startup or mid to large scale. iI delivers a well-supported server architecture without much fuss involved. I loved the customer support I received whenever I sought help for several different client projects. Nginx is a great choice for use with AWS EC2 instances as well as I've personally used and configured it without any bottleneck. So I can say that it is a good choice for AWS and similar cloud hosting solutions.,Reliable load balancing capabilities
Caching of static assets is great
SSL handling is good
Relatively simple configurable proxy solution
Open source hence accessibility is easy to larger audience,Nginx plus is a bit on higher end on pricing for small organisations
Automatic Nginx configuration & services update for open source version is something which would be a welcoming step. Currently everything needs to be done manually
Web GUI console could be a slight better and some configurations from there itself would be highly appreciated,10,Nginx has helped with solving the quick loading issue for static assets to a great extent for us.
Nginx helped us with distributing loads effectively which eventually helped us with converting visitors into customers.
Nginx can be a good solution for eCommerce websites whenever there is a sudden spike in traffic which could be handled more effectively using the Nginx solution.,Apache Web Server and Microsoft IIS,Apache Web Server, Microsoft IISRahul DhangarNginx as a DevOps Tool2019-02-08T21:59:04.888ZNginx is the DEFAULT web server for our organization and projects that we work on. I don't think Nginx as a simple web server but a micro service that is part of the whole application. As a DevOps [solution], it has made us more independent rather than relying on developers for every small requirement. Now we can just write a few lines of code in Lua or js and get our solution ready as a hotfix rather than going back and forth and trying to make developers understand what is needed. In some cases, our few lines of code prove to be a better solution than an application :)
I would suggest having one layer of Nginx on top of your JAVA or Node application. If you never use it as we do it will still handle the web connections better.,Handles HTTP connections very well. The way it uses your OS features and don't try to reinvent the wheel is awesome.
Things you can do with your POST requests are countless. You can rewrite your request and responses entirely.
Supporting Lua, Js, etc. If you know a bit of scripting also, there is no limit to what you can achieve.,I don't really have any cons, because I recommend people switch to Nginx.,10,Akamai Ion and Apache Web Server,Akamai Ion, MongoDB Atlas, Amazon CloudFront, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS LambdaNitin BhadauriaGreat lightweight web server.2019-02-15T22:24:13.305ZNginx is the main competitor to Apache. It provides stable service. I have been using Nginx for the last four years and it has never gone down even once, which is critical for a web server. I also like the flexibility and compatibility Nginx has with other components in web development. I switched from LAMP to LEMP, which works great as an environment for WordPress and other PHP software. Overall, it is a great choice for a web server.,Stability. It runs quietly and never goes down.
Flexibility. It can run in all the Linux distro.
Compatibility. It works with PHP and MYSQL well.
It's free.,Community. Compare to Apache, Nginx has much smaller community support. You do not have lots of resources you can use when you encounter a problem accept digging into it and trying to figure it out yourself.
Lacks Large Scale Experience. Nginx is not the first choice for enterprise level architecture. Most large companies will use Apache instead of Nginx when it comes to large scale architecture. Here is where Nginx's lightweight advantage becomes their con.
Lack of multiple modules compatibility. Because Nginx is a lightweight focused server, it cannot be used with some other modules. That also makes Nginx favorable for people with small websites.,8,The first phase of implementing Nginx is nearly zero cost. It is easy to deploy and easy to maintain. But as your business grows, you will consider a more enterprise-size server to have better cluster/scaling ability. Therefore, you need to figure out the right point for switching from Nginx to others.,Apache Web Server and Microsoft IIS,AWS CodePipeline, AWS Lambda, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Google BigQuery, Google Cloud Datastore, Google Cloud Dataflow, MongoDB, MongoDB Atlas, StreamSets DataOps Platform, Apache KafkaVerified UserThe most reliable load balancer I've ever used2018-11-18T19:02:43.353ZWe use Nginx as load balancing for our complex web applications and proxying requests to different applications across the company. It has a small footprint and memory usage, so it's the best choice solution for us.,Static assets caching
Extremely simply configurable proxy solution
Load balancing is awesome
The robustness is on the top,Steep learning curve: you'll spend lots of time to read all manuals and specs before you can configure it correctly
SSL handling is poor,9,We can serve more clients than ever
Services became reliable
Security increased,Apache Web Server and Microsoft IIS,Apache Web Server, Apache Kafka, Apache LuceneIlya PopovichOur first million of requests per second with Nginx2018-08-07T02:01:42.967ZWe use Nginx Plus Professional as a load balancer and as a reverse proxy with its ModSecurity component - WAF (Web Application Firewall). Nginx supports all the web traffic of the whole organization and some of our clients.,Nginx supports millions of requests per second
Nginx supports our high availability schemes
Nginx ensures that our information and resources are available and secure
The Nginx team has been very proactive when we need help, support and in the renew of licenses process,In five years we only have had 10 minutes of unavailability because of Nginx. However, Nginx support was very helpful for us.,10,First, the high availability of our operation, in terms of money would be dollars per second.
We can make changes in configuration without restart the servers or stop Nginx service. This favors availability.,Microsoft IIS and Apache Web Server,TIBCO Jaspersoft, Microsoft IIS, Oracle Database 12c, Oracle Database as a ServiceJhonattan Smith Peláez NimisicaThe Most Reliable Load Balancer You'll Ever Use2018-06-14T16:11:58.818ZWe use Nginx as the primary reverse proxy for all of our web services. We manage several dozen web applications, for many different clients, and Nginx allows us to quickly route requests to the correct service. Since we use Kubernetes to manage services, it is fast and simple for us to add new routes to our Nginx service. Nginx also manages our SSL, allowing us to deliver content securely.,Straight-forward configuration format that users of all skill levels can learn, and yet is powerful enough for the huge breadth of features that Nginx provides.
Massive scale right out the box. We've never had a Nginx instance overwhelmed by requests, and if we did it would be trivial to spin up more Nginx instances to handle the load.
SSL termination means that we can deliver content over HTTPS without needing our individual services to require TLS support. This saves us a lot of time and headache while keeping us secure.
Nginx is open-source and free, meaning that anyone can use it to power their services, from individual projects to billion-dollar websites.,The open-source flavor of Nginx does not support automatic service discovery. In the time of Docker containers, Kubernetes and other managed cloud services, it can be difficult to manually update Nginx configurations as services change.
Nginx is quite heavy for smaller projects and low-traffic scenarios. It requires knowledge of operating and configuring, which is separate from operating the main web server. There are managed alternatives that will get web services up faster and be more reliable.
Nginx-plus has some very valuable tools that projects of any size could take advantage of. Unfortunately, it is very expensive as it includes SLA and support, putting it out of reach of all but the most well-funded projects.,8,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.,Apache Web Server,Kubernetes, Google Compute Engine, DockerTyler JohnsonHail to the king of of the lightweight web!2018-03-03T19:23:31.446ZNginx is powering the serving of web content across our entire organization. We used to host over a hundred web servers with Rackspace Cloud all with nginx sitting in front of backend server processes. Now, we host the majority of our sites on Pantheon, who also utilize nginx in their app server layer. We also host a number of custom servers on AWS EC2 which serve web content over nginx. It allows us to squeeze more performance from our web servers much more easily than using Apache.,Nginx is typically blazing fast. It's hard for other web servers to touch it in terms of raw speed and efficiency.
Nginx has a simple and intuitive configuration language which is easier for me to keep in my head than the more verbose Apache syntax.
Nginx is very powerful as a web server, offering the ability to utilize many of the same features as Apache, sometimes in even better ways.
Nginx works great as a reverse proxy, too! It can sit in front of a separate server, or even a cluster of servers, and intelligently handle serving requests to and responses from those servers, including a highly-configurable caching layer.,Nginx often requires some initial configuration. It's worth doing, because you'll end up with great results, but it can be slightly daunting for someone to get started using it. Apache might have a leg up in that regard--When you install Apache, typically it's just about ready to do what you want already. But the issue with Apache is that most people skip the extensive tuning phase required after that, and with nginx it becomes more just a part of the configuration process.
Sometimes, the configuration syntax, even though it's powerful and terse, isn't the most intuitive. Luckily there's plenty of documentation about what things mean and how to accomplish certain things. There may not be much that can be done about this--to have a powerful web server, you need a powerful-enough configuration language.
The nginx brand is somewhat fragmented, and it can be confusing. There's the open source nginx web server, which I've primarily been referring to. But then there's NGINX Plus, a premium subscription-based service which works with a range of other NGINX products (NGINX WAF, NGINX Amplify, NGINX Controller). I've met a number of people who weren't very familiar with nginx, and instinctively went to nginx.com first, and from there it seems like everything costs money. It's only when they realize there's a different site, nginx.org, that they find what they went looking for.,10,Nginx has decreased the burden of web server administration and maintenance, and we are spending less time on server issues than when we were using Apache.
Nginx has allowed more people in our company to get involved with configuring things on the web server, so there's no longer a single point of failure ("the Apache guy").
Nginx has given us the ability to handle a larger number of requests without scaling up in hardware quite so quickly.,Apache and Microsoft IIS,Symfony, Pantheon, Drupal, Trello, Slack, G SuiteBen McClureDeploy web apps in the lightweight Nginx server2018-04-20T22:21:02.029ZWe used it to deploy web applications built using popular JavaScript frameworks such as Angular and React.,Lightweight
Great community
A lot of documentation available
Regular webinars where you can ask the experts questions,A user-friendly web console to add some configurations would be appreciated,9,It's easy to learn so it does not require some specific training to use it
Ability to deploy web apps written in different programming languages which is appreciated,Apache Tomcat and Oracle GlassFish Server,Google Drive, Apple iCloud, Microsoft IISRene EnriquezNginx is best when used with a good dose of services and APIs2017-10-24T18:16:23.630ZWe 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.,10,Lightweight, low CPU and memory utilization, meaning it's cheap to operate.
It's easy to configure and industry-standard, so lots of people know how to use it.
Helps model lots of scenarios where a more expensive or heavier-weight tool might have been used.,Apache Web Server and Microsoft IIS,Google BigQuery, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud StorageAnatoly GeyfmanNginx is one of the most efficient and reliable web servers available in 2017.2017-03-28T20:46:59.153ZNginx is used as the main web server and load balancer in front of our Rails apps. We use Nginx + Passenger together as part of our stack for production deployments of our Rails apps.
We currently have 5 different deployments of Nginx, and everyone in the company that deploys production apps uses them.
The main business problem addressed by Nginx was definitely speed and load balancing. Before using Nginx + Passenger, we had Apache servers in front of Mongrel for our rails apps, and they not only were slow and memory intensive, the only load balancing strategy available with that setup was round-robin allocation of incoming web requests to different app servers. With Nginx, it acts as a load balancing proxy as well and keeps track of which app servers are free to receive new requests. This resolves bottlenecks in our server's performance.,Nginx works really well for serving static files. You can let requests for static files and assets pass directly through to the file system and Nginx will serve them really fast, without touching your web app processes.
Nginx does a great job with load balancing. You can set up different load balancing strategies, but the default load balancer it comes with out of the box works very well already -- better than any round-robin approach because it checks for availability of the resource before handing off the incoming request.
Nginx is more memory efficient and generally faster than Apache. It has a small footprint, which can be very helpful, especially if you're running on a VPS.
Nginx has not crashed on me even once. The robustness of Nginx overall is very impressive.
You can apply configuration changes to Nginx without needing to restart the server. You can also do reloads of the config without dropping any web requests because Nginx provides a global queue where requests can be held while it reloads the config.,There's no configuration wizard. I had to read their docs every time I make a change to the Nginx config files.
Deploying rails apps with Nginx + Passenger requires a recompilation of Nginx. It would have been better if Nginx supported a plugin system that would allow you to plug in some rails app servers into it.
There's no easy way to tell which incoming request was sent to which back-end app server. You have to do advanced tricks to keep track of those things, in case you need to see what's happening behind the scenes for debugging.,9,Improved the reliability of our site. Before using Nginx, with Apache as our app server, there were times when we had to manually go in and restart Apache to bring the site back online. We've never had to do that with Nginx.
Made our web server more memory efficient -- Nginx has a very small memory footprint, on the order of under 100 MB. This makes it suitable even for cheap VPS machines.
The Nginx community provides online examples of configurations, so it saves us time in writing the config files from scratch.,Apache and HerokuAnand ChhatparNginX is a blazing fast web server with native load balancing .. considering it yet?2017-02-24T16:37:40.138ZNginx is my default go-to web server for all Linux web servers (LEMP Stacks) that I currently deploy. I use NginX primarily as one of several pieces of a custom-designed web-server stack in conjunction with Ubuntu or CentOS, Percona XtraDB, and HHVM with PHP7-FPM failover, which is used to power PHP based websites (such as WordPress) which I deploy on entry-level compute packages provided by industry standard cloud services (AWS, Google, BlueMix, Digital Ocean) for our web-design clients. My primary goal with these servers is to provide our clients with their own managed, in-house hosting solution with more power than a standard hosting company can provide, but at a similar recurring cost bracket. Nginx was my choice, as it was designed specifically to win the C10k challenge, which was a challenge to create a web server capable of handling 10,000 simultaneous connections on a single server (which was successful). The biggest challenge I face is designing a stack that can handle a potentially heavy connection load while deployed on low-spec, shared-resource, sub-$20 virtual servers, while avoiding the expensive, constant need for computing resource increases. These challenges require a web server than can handle 1 or 1,000 connections on the initial specs, without an increase in resources, which Nginx was able to accomplish beyond my expectations, allowing me to provide similar and sometimes equal performance on virtual servers as that of higher-cost, WordPress specific hosts, such as WP Engine.,Nginx's best feature is what it was designed for in the first place, providing a high amount of simultaneous connections with less hardware resources. NginX is at minimum, twice as fast as Apache with static requests, and equal to Apache with PHP requests.
Nginx was created appr. 5 years after Apache, giving it the benefit of Apache's hind-sight, which has allowed NginX to be designed to better handle, or simply bypass and hand-off processes to better equipped software.
NginX includes quite a few very useful performance enhancing tools built in, such as advanced caching techniques (converting proxied dynamic content to static content for faster caching), native reverse proxy support, and best of all, built-in load balancing that is very easy to use.
The NginX setup and deployment is very easy, as the entire configuration is located in 2 files, consisting of a general server config, and a site-specific config for virtual hosts, allowing the greenest of Linux admins to easily deploy a web server.,Even though Nginx is the 2nd most used web server, it is rarely recognized by anyone outside of an IT field that uses it directly. This makes it a very hard sell, especially within start-up companies (a great place for NginX) relying upon VC funding, where brand recognition of the providers/manufacturers used in your IT environment can be a factor in funding.
Due to being less known, NginX does lack on advanced community support along with modules and add-ons when compared to Apache, luckily the community support available is generally more than enough. The same goes for locating experienced NginX administrators, but again, the learning curve is very small. allowing staff to be adequately trained in a short amount of time.
Due to the first point I made, a lot of software does not come with pre-configs for NginX,9,NginX has not only boosted my clients ROI, but has also boosted my sales and increased my client base, by allowing me to offer an alternative hosting solution that has the capabilities and performance of a high-end host at the cost of a low-end cookie cutter host.
NginX has allowed me to provide high availability server clusters at no additional cost due to it's native load balancing capabilities.
I have been able to gain more customers via references by providing a high stable and fast server environment.,Microsoft IIS and Apache,Apache Web Server, Microsoft IIS, Apache Tomcat, Zend PHP Engine, Laravel PHP FrameworkCraig NashYour Go-To Frontend Server for Scalability and Load-Balancing2017-05-17T20:55:09.532ZI have used Nginx for years to serve Ruby on Rails applications for a number of clients and with various integrations including Passenger and, more recently, Unicorn. I have found Nginx to be a wonderful choice for both standalone server and layer in front of Unicorn. Nginx excels at serving static files, load-balancing, security (preventing certain exploit attempts) and simply acting as a front end for full-featured application server back-ends.,Nginx excels at serving static assets (images, cached files).
Nginx is fantastic for load-balancing and routing requests to back-end application servers.
Nginx is built for scaling and is an excellent solution for high-traffic websites.
Nginx has good features for protecting against certain security exploits.,Nginx has some peculiarities or "gotchas" that take getting used to.
Nginx could improve at SSL handling.
Nginx is the best asynchronous server but I could see using Apache for process-based (threaded) serving of dynamic assets as a back-end behind Nginx. So I don't think Nginx should necessarily improve in this regard as much as it's choosing the right tool for the job—Nginx for static serving, other, process-based servers for dynamic serving.,10,Nginx has helped numerous web properties for various clients scale and be served to 100s of thousands of users. It has been an excellent tool in all cases where I have used it.
Nginx has slowed down development on a few occasions due to strange gotchas, but these are minor in comparison to the gains in time to market due to easy configuration and a large customer base with many answers to existing issues, plus excellent getting started guides.
Nginx has overall had a very positive impact on all of the projects where I have used it by having easy, rapid integration with preferred tools and platforms like Ruby on Rails.,Apache Server, Mongrel, Webrick, Puma, Lighttpd and Mongoose,Heroku, New Relic APM, PostgreSQLJonah DempcyNginx - Simple, Reliable, Featureful, Enjoyable2016-09-20T16:13:02.448ZWe've used Nginx in several capacities.
- dynamic routing of ingress traffic to Docker containers
- load balancing web applications
- proxying requests to different applications,Load Balancing: nginx EXCELS at load balancing. In comparison to HAProxy, which is difficult to configure, Nginx is extremely simple to configure and read. Also, nginx reloads with zero downtime while HAProxy might drop a few requests when reloading during high traffic times.
Proxy: an extremely simple proxy solution. And again, easy to write and read configuration.
Cache: cache static assets.
Dynamic Routing of Ingress Traffic: Using tools like confd, you can dynamically rewrite nginx rules and route traffic to Docker containers.,I've yet to run into a pain point with nginx.,10,Really makes a lot of Docker workflows doable that would be frustrating otherwise,HAProxy,Docker, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Relational Database Service, Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)Will SternNginx Will Speed Your Websites to your Customer's Browsers2016-09-09T16:05:51.696ZNginx is a http server software used to serve up websites across the web, similar to Apache httpd. The main difference being that Nginx offers multi-threaded support to serve up websites faster and more efficiently. I implement and use it as often as possible for my websites I build in order to provide the speed and efficiency that is required. It is easy to use one config file to serve up both the http and https versions of the site.,Multi-threaded support is great in that it isolates each hit to the web server to cut down on crashes and deliver speed.
Easy configuration files for both http and https support.
Small footprint and memory usage.,Not as many configuration options as Apache httpd.
Can be confusing to set up if used to Apache's config options.
Confusing to figure out how to set up mods.,10,Websites experience less crashes and faster speeds so that customers stay on the websites for longer.
First time setting up might take longer, but it has a great return as far as speed boosts.
Easier configuration leads to long time rewards,Apache Web Server,WordPress, Yoast Wordpress SEO Plugins, Drupal, Skype, HipChat, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Teamwork Project ManagerChris Coppenbarger
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