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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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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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Product Demos

CVE-2016-1247 Nginx (Debian-based) Vulnerability - Root Priv. Escalation PoC Exploit Demo

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Nginx Web Server configuration with Examples

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Load Balancing with NGINX

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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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Features

Application Servers

An Application Server provides services and infrastructure for developing, deploying, and running applications

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Product Details

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

Screenshot of Overview of the NGINX Application PlatformScreenshot of NGINX Controller - MonitoringScreenshot of NGINX Controller - Configuration

NGINX Technical Details

Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Microsoft IIS and HAProxy Community Edition are common alternatives for NGINX.

Reviewers rate Installation highest, with a score of 9.9.

The most common users of NGINX are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).

NGINX Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)0%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)50%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)50%
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Great NGINX ehh

Rating: 9 out of 10
June 11, 2025
Vetted Review
Verified User
NGINX
2 years of experience
  • high performance
  • low resource usuage
  • efficient static file serving
Cons
  • to be more scale-able
  • to use lesser resource

My review

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 06, 2025
Vetted Review
Verified User
NGINX
10 years of experience
  • Load balancing
  • Web servers
  • Proxy

NGINX

Rating: 1 out of 10
February 28, 2025
Vetted Review
Verified User
NGINX
3 years of experience
  • Load balancing
  • Improved security
  • Scalability
Cons
  • Relative complexity when configuring X-Cigna-True-client-IP
  • Code in a branch can be overwritten by the next comit
  • Creating a template to support routing to Shape was difficult due to complexity of architecture patterns

Solution for Reverse Proxy

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 22, 2024
PM
Vetted Review
Verified User
NGINX
4 years of experience
  • Reverse Proxy
  • SSL
  • Caching
  • CIPHERS
Cons
  • Should implement in Windows
  • Web Interface

NGINX Forward Proxy is the way to go!

Rating: 8 out of 10
February 13, 2024
IW
Vetted Review
Verified User
NGINX
1 year of experience
  • reading TCP headers for forwarding
  • forwarding traffic flawlessly
  • Let's Encrypt compatibility
Cons
  • add load balancer into basic proxy manager
  • better initial SSL documentation
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