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Nginx from the company of the same name in San Francisco, California, supports an application infrastructure.https://dudodiprj2sv7.cloudfront.net/product-logos/uZ/Gw/32GN4B930X4U.PNGNGINX IncThe 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 JohnsonThe 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 NimisicaHail 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 Enriquez
Windows, Linux, Mac, https://www.nginx.com/products/technical-specs/
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