Item: NGINX
Rating: 10
Author: Jhonattan Smith Peláez Nimisica

Overall Satisfaction with Nginx

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We 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.

Pros and Cons

Pros

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

Cons

In five years we only have had 10 minutes of unavailability because of Nginx. However, Nginx support was very helpful for us.

Return on Investment

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.

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft IIS and Apache Web Server

When we did load and performance testing we got better results with Nginx

Other Software Used

TIBCO Jaspersoft, Microsoft IIS, Oracle Database 12c, Oracle Database as a Service

Likelihood to Recommend

Nginx is excellent working as a load balancer, reverse proxy - WAF (Web Application Firewall), Web server, and high availability and high performance scenarios.

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Our first million of requests per second with Nginx