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 Enterprises (1,001+ 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
(138)Attribute Ratings
Reviews
(1-12 of 12)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
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
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
!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
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.
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.
August 06, 2019
Light weight proxy server with best features in one - Nginx
Nginx is widely used in the whole organization for different applications as a front end hitting web server. It's used generally to benefit the caching mechanism and load the balance of the clustered applications and also used widely to maintain an active environment in case of any node failure or application server failure.
- Nginx provides a very good caching mechanism as compared to other web servers. It helps to increase the performance of application when users hit the same address again and again in short period of time. This caching mechanism has many options available and it helps to configure it any way.
- Nginx is a light weight web server which forwards the requests from the user to application server. If we host multiple sites on same Nginx server, the load of the server doesn't increase.
- Nginx rewrite rules bring more flexibility to configure permanent or temporary redirections for some of the URLs
- Nginx works best when we use it as front end proxy server for any application
- Nginx is best in managing the Production and DR environments in an active mode. It is applicable for some of the applications when local file systems are shared across servers.
- Nginx monitoring is good but not best. Teams have to improve the monitoring of Nginx where we can easily track the ddos attacks or multiple connections from one IP or multiple requests coming from one IP then they need to block it etc. i.e. Nginx must provide more flexibility in configuring more scenarios, which we do manually to improve the application performance.
- Nginx needs improvement in the logging mechanism. Nginx must provide their own commands to get the desired output from the logs. So that instead of using unix commands and grep particular things, if Nginx provides better commands which can easily trace the logs in desired way, it will bring more flexibility to the system administrator.
February 18, 2019
Create a service Mesh inside your network using Nginx nodes.
Nginx 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.
February 08, 2019
Only possible choice to serve our business
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We 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
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We 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.
June 14, 2018
The Most Reliable Load Balancer You'll Ever Use
We 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.
April 20, 2018
Deploy web apps in the lightweight Nginx server
We 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