NGINX

NGINX

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Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
NGINX	Score9.2 out of 10	Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)	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…	N/A

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Considered Both Products	F5 Verified User Chose NGINX NGINX is more expensive than HA Proxy. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose NGINX The support and ability to provide near zero downtime for changes is a winner. The lightweight engine also helps reduce cost. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose NGINX Costing and stability Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose NGINX Easy to Install and configure. Pick the configuration dynamically without restarting All the configurations at one place Incentivized Helpful? Puru MG Technical Solution Consultant in Legal at DXC (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose NGINX Its like packed togother as a bundle Incentivized Helpful? Ian Walmsley Solutions Architect in Information Technology at Skaletek Solutions (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees) Chose NGINX Have not used anything further. Did table with the web service for ab it. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose NGINX NGINX is faster to deploy and it has minimal setup needs for our POCs over Apache Tomcat Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose NGINX How does it compare? We use Apache ATP server and we also use Tom Cat also owned by Apache, but both Apache, ATP, and MKA. They are relatively older than GX and so they're one problem for Apache and MKA they need more power, more memory, and more space. Incentivized Helpful? Marcio Priess Network Architect in Information Technology at Nidec Global Appliance (Mechanical Or Industrial Engineering, 10,001+ employees) Chose NGINX NGINX have higher market share which obviously show to us it is the preferred choice of most of the customers. Both of platform competes in the Web and Application server areas, but due the security features of NGINX be more flexible this in my opinion makes more sense. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose NGINX It is like comparing a formula 1 car against a regular street car in terms of performance or installation simplicity Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose NGINX Apache is a market leader but NGINX is new and has new features. Lightweight and can handle static requests. We use EC2 and I believe NGINX is more suited when it comes to scalability. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose NGINX NGINX is more stable and scaleable than Imperva Application Delivery. Incentivized Helpful? Bejoy John CTO in Information Technology at Vetty (Public Safety, 11-50 employees) Chose NGINX NGINX has better performance and better online support than Apache HTTP Server. Incentivized Helpful? Rudolph Pereira Team Lead in Information Technology at Avalon Information Systems Pvt. Ltd. (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose NGINX NGINX is faster and easier to configure. It has better reverse proxy features which is much easy to configure. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose NGINX MS IIS and Apache HTTP Server both provide many similar services. However the configuration simplicity, and performance characteristics helped us choose NGINX above the other 2 products. Incentivized Helpful? Josh Stapp Sr. Software Engineer in Engineering at Tempus Labs, Inc. (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees) Chose NGINX I have found that [NGINX] seems to perform better throughout the years with less issues although I've used Apache more. I would definitely recommend [NGINX] for any high volume site and I've seen this to usually be the case from most provided web hosts who will pick [NGINX] … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose NGINX Nginx is much more lightweight than apache HTTP. Incentivized Helpful? Sandesh Singh FrontEnd Development Engineer in Research & Development at Genius Systems Pvt. Ltd (Internet, 201-500 employees) Chose NGINX NGINX Stacks up at the top for me because it's fast, reliable, and secure and apache is also usable but not so good in comparison to NGINX and since I and my organization have switched to NGINX I also don't want to look back at apache as NGINX works the best for our use case … Incentivized Helpful? John Reeve Principal, Lead developer, Lead designer in Engineering at Pelago (Internet, 1-10 employees) Chose NGINX NGINX's footprint is much smaller than Apache, and it's great for serving up static content. The URL rewriting was not as familiar as Apache, but just as powerful once configured correctly. As a load balancer, it's much more affordable than Citrix ADC. We used the load … Incentivized Helpful? Alan Matson, CCNA:S, MCP Sr. Network Security Engineer in Information Technology at Insight (Information Technology and Services, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose NGINX NGINX has been more stable and customizable than we have had with APACHE. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose NGINX 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose NGINX Nginx's cache mechanism is better than Apache and HAProxy. Also Nginx is very light weight and works for multiple sites with much less work. i.e. As front end proxy server configuration is very easy as compared to other applications. Apache sometimes crashes and is not able to … Incentivized Helpful? Tom Erdman Network Systems Administrator in Information Technology at Johnson County Library (Libraries, 201-500 employees) Chose NGINX Nginx is way easier to configure and runs better than Microsoft’s offering, in my opinion, and I’ll take it over Apache for its simplicity. Incentivized Helpful?
	Would buy again
	100% Would buy again 30 Answers
	Delivers good value for the price
	100% Delivers good value for the price 26 Answers
	Happy with the feature set
	100% Happy with the feature set 30 Answers
	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
	90% Lived up to sales and marketing promises 18 Answers
	Implementation went as expected
96% Implementation went as expected 26 Answers

Features

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Comparison of Application Servers features of NGINX
Feature	NGINX 7.8 21 Ratings 2% below category average
IDE support	7.210 Ratings
Security management	8.018 Ratings
Administration and management	7.018 Ratings
Application server performance	8.018 Ratings
Installation	9.718 Ratings
Open-source standards compliance	7.016 Ratings

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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend	8.8 (48 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.1 (1 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	8.1 (4 ratings)

User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend	F5 [NGINX] is very well suited for high performance. I have seen it used on servers with 1k current connections with no issues. Despite seeing it used in many environments I've never seen software developers use it over apache, express, IIS in local dev environments so it may be more difficult to setup. I've also seen it used to load balance again without issues. Incentivized Josh Stapp Sr. Software Engineer Read full review
Pros	F5 Very low memory usage. Can handle many more connections than alternatives (like Apache HTTPD) due to low overhead. (event-based architecture). Great at serving static content. Scales very well. Easy to host multiple Nginx servers to promote high availability. Open-Source (no cost)! Incentivized Gabriel Samaroo Senior Software Engineer Read full review
Cons	F5 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. L Matthew Blancett Senior DevOps Engineer Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	F5 Great value for the product Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Usability	F5 Front end proxy and reverse proxy of Nginx is always useful. I always prefer to Nginx in overall usability when you have application server and database or multiple application servers and single database i.e. clustered application. Nginx provides really good features and flexibility which helps the system administrator in case of troubleshooting and also from the administration perspective. Also, Nginx doesn't delay any request because of internal performance issues. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Support Rating	F5 Community support is great, and they've also had a presence at conferences. Overall, there is no shortage of documentation and community support. We're currently using it to serve up some WordPress sites, and configuring NGINX for this purpose is well documented. Incentivized John Reeve Principal, Lead developer, Lead designer Read full review
Alternatives Considered	F5 We have used Traffic, Apache, Google Cloud Load Balancing and other managed cloud-based load balancers. When it comes to scale and customization nothing beats Nginx. We selected Nginx over the others because we have a large number of services and we can manage a single Nginx instance for all of them we have high impact services and Nginx never breaks a sweat under load individual services have special considerations and Nginx lets us configure each one uniquely Incentivized Tyler Johnson Senior Software Architect Read full review
Return on Investment	F5 Nginx has decreased the burden of web server administration and maintenance, and we are spending less time on server issues than when we were using Apache. Nginx has allowed more people in our company to get involved with configuring things on the web server, so there's no longer a single point of failure ("the Apache guy"). Nginx has given us the ability to handle a larger number of requests without scaling up in hardware quite so quickly. Incentivized Ben McClure Head of Development Technologies Read full review
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