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 …
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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…
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- Installation (18)9.494%
- Application server performance (18)8.686%
- Administration and management (18)8.080%
- Security management (18)8.080%
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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…
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How to Serve Static Content
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Using NGINX Open Source for Video Streaming and Storage
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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
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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% |
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March 22, 2024
NGINX Review
- Positive. Made it more secure
March 22, 2024
NGINX review
- Improved security of our apps and container platforms
March 22, 2024
NGINX review
- Improves SLA by 15%
- Improves performance and reduce latency
- Reduce cost by 30%
March 22, 2024
Recommended product
- Love cost
- Stabilibilty
March 22, 2024
NGINX the champion
- Improved Performance compared to IIS
- Througput
- Low Latency
March 22, 2024
Solution for Reverse Proxy
- Easy to explain to client
February 13, 2024
NGINX Forward Proxy is the way to go!
- we haven't made moves to do a spend so no ROI needs yet
- we are worried about the neglect of SMB segemnt perhaps.. smaller dollars
September 15, 2023
NGINX Review
- No, this for us is free and with good performance there really no any negative impact.
September 15, 2023
NGINX Review
- I'm not sure about that.
September 15, 2023
NGINX Review
- This product helps us deploy our products much faster pace, which helps us to develop faster.
April 27, 2023
Nginx is a powerful tool
- Nginx is easy to learn. As a result, finding people resources are less challenging
- Nginx has saved us money by a factor of two
April 27, 2023
NGINX simple review
- Low cost by using the open server version
- Simplified implementation saves money with professional services.
- Secure plattform helps the company to be protected from threats.
April 27, 2023
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- Simplification of user access to applications
- Eliminated service desk calls to solve VPN connectivity issues
April 03, 2023
Can't get a better backend load balancer than nginx
- Great if you have multiple servers behind a load balancer environment
- Reverse proxying a server using web url
- Low cost of usage
November 29, 2022
NGNIX saves the day
- Scales to our infrastructure
- Leverages native AWS services
November 29, 2022
NGINX to the rescue!
- Stability
- Handles future growth
- Scaleable
November 29, 2022
NGINX all the way (at least for start ups)
- Fast server
- Low cost
July 25, 2022
NGINX the Web Server you can count on!
- It saves 10 to 20 hours a week.
- It has a shorter learning curve and we have 2 to 3 trained system admin resources on NGINX.
- We save time on bugs and issue fixing since NGINX is stable..
July 25, 2022
NGINX High Performance Web Server
- Our ROI has mainly been around reduced time for our web administrators.
- Managed open source software has fulfilled our security needs.
- Highly configurable for our complex frontend/backend load balanced scenarios.
- 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.
May 07, 2021
Nginx outperforms other web servers
- It lets you focus on the hard part of web dev and not devops
- There can be increased complexity by splitting up which servers do which processes
- Increased reliability with load balancing
- It allows a standard process many people are familiar with.
- It is widely supported by the community.
- It has tons of features.
- Greater CI/CD performances
- Great with developers
- easy use after deployments
February 22, 2020
NGINX, a powerful 3 in 1 solution for budget conscious startups.
- Open source, so it reduced our licensing costs to nothing.
- In our first few years as a startup, the load balancing features saved us money.
February 12, 2020
NGINX the last web server you will need
- Open source means great ROI