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    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

    Reblaze

    Score7.2 out of 10
    N/AReblaze is a comprehensive web security solution from the company of the same name in Sunnyvale. It includes DDoS protection, intrusion prevention, bot mitigation, and can be extended with web application firewall (WAF), anti-scraping, as well as CDN integration with autoscaling, load balancing, and real time management console with remote monitoring capabilities.N/A
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    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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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
    100%
    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%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    NGINXReblaze
    Application Servers
    Comparison of Application Servers features of NGINX and Reblaze
    Feature
    NGINX
    7.8
    21 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Reblaze
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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
    User Ratings
    NGINXReblaze
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.8
    (48 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 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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    User Testimonials
    NGINXReblaze
    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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    Reblaze
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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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    Reblaze
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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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    Reblaze
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    Likelihood to Renew
    F5
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    Usability
    F5
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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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    Reblaze
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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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    Reblaze
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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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    Reblaze
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    Screenshot of Overview of the NGINX Application PlatformScreenshot of NGINX Controller - MonitoringScreenshot of NGINX Controller - Configuration