NGINX Review
January 28, 2020
NGINX Review
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
NGINX Open Source
Overall Satisfaction with NGINX
I use NGINX for two main purposes. The first and foremost is to serve as a reverse proxy to rails applications running on their own servers. This includes making use of gzipping and SSL/TLS encryption. Additionally, it is used to serve compiled react applications as static sites, with the other instance still serving as a reverse proxy to these.
- SSL/TLS encryption - Incredibly simple to configure and use.
- Gzipping - Quickly and easily compress responses to save network cycles.
- Lack of logging tools - Simply writes logs to files that you have to manually navigate.
- No GUI - All configuration from a console. This could be a pro or a con to some.
- Gzipping has drastically cut down response sized and subsequently network costs.
- Out of the box SSL/TLS is incredibly valuable.
Compared to Apache, NGINX is much lighter on resource consumption, and also far faster as a server, serving static content over twice as fast in most benchmark tests. NGINX doesn't offer as much potential configuration and customization as Apache, however, so if these advanced features are necessary then Apache might be the way to go.
Do you think NGINX delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with NGINX's feature set?
Yes
Did NGINX live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of NGINX go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy NGINX again?
Yes