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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting 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

    Oracle Dyn WAF

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AOracle Dyn Web Application Security Platform extends beyond just typical Web Application Firewall (WAF) capabilities to offer Access Control, Bot Management, application DDoS protection and API security.N/A
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    NGINXOracle Dyn WAF
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    NGINXOracle Dyn WAF
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    NGINXOracle Dyn WAF
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    F5
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    90%
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    Implementation went as expected
    96%
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    Features
    NGINXOracle Dyn WAF
    Application Servers
    Comparison of Application Servers features of NGINX and Oracle Dyn Web Application Security Platform
    Feature
    NGINX
    7.8
    21 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Oracle Dyn Web Application Security Platform
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    Ratings
    IDE support7.210 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security management8.018 Ratings00 Ratings
    Administration and management7.018 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application server performance8.018 Ratings00 Ratings
    Installation9.718 Ratings00 Ratings
    Open-source standards compliance7.016 Ratings00 Ratings
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    NGINXOracle Dyn WAF
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Oracle WebLogic Server
    Score7.4 out of 10
    F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Red Hat JBoss EAP
    Score7.3 out of 10
    Akamai App & API Protector
    Score8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    NGINXOracle Dyn WAF
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.8
    (48 ratings)
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    8.1
    (4 ratings)
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    Configurability
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    8.0
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    User Testimonials
    NGINXOracle Dyn WAF
    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.
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    Oracle
    Their technical team is great, their portal is easily the best of those I have reviewed it against (including Akamai, CloudFlare, and Imperva), and they are a dedicated technology partner through and through.
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    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)!
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    Oracle
    • Pre-populated rulesets - This allows engineers to quickly spin up new WAF instances without the need to configure extensive rulesets.
    • Detailed audit logs - Logs show detailed information about traffic hitting the WAF as well as information the rules allowing or blocking the traffic.
    • Change Management - Changes can be staged and applied when necessary, without interfering with current traffic.
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    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.
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    Oracle
    • The purchase of Oracle Dyn into Oracle Dyn continues to develop the company, and while the process maturity is wonderful, it is worth mentioning.
    • Many businesses were affected when their Express option was yanked from production too rapidly, resulting in significant costs and delays.
    • Full 360-degree traffic and data visibility with ADC analytics integration.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    F5
    Great value for the product
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    Oracle
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    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.
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    Oracle
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    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.
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    Oracle
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    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
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    Oracle
    After several years involved with the issue of cyber security and having been very close with distributed denial of service attacks, having used several companies to protect our applications, I decided to opt for Oracle Dyn Web Application Security Platform. Definitely, Oracle Dyn gives my organization the protection we need for our critical applications, far away from the other companies that offer similar services.
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    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.
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    Oracle
    • Has a user-friendly interface that is both informative and intuitive.
    • The client's websites are monitored round-the-clock by a staff that provides quick response in the event of any difficulties.
    • Deploying it is a breeze.
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    NGINX Screenshots

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