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NGINX Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 9.2 out of 10
Score
9.2 out of 10

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for NGINX are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Ease of Configuration: Users have found load balancing easy to configure and install, noting the availability of online guides for assistance. Setting up the system was described as straightforward and not overly complex, allowing users to quickly implement load balancing without extensive technical knowledge.

Flexibility and Scalability: Reviewers appreciate the system's flexibility and scalability, enabling convenient maintenance and easy adaptation to changing requirements. The system's ability to scale effectively has been highlighted by users, who found it accommodating for varying workloads and growth scenarios.

Open-Source Nature: Users have praised the system for its open-source nature, richness in features, stability, and valuable resources for various web-related tasks. The open-source aspect was emphasized as a significant benefit by many reviewers who value the transparency, community support, and customization options it offers.

Reviews

51 Reviews

Great NGINX ehh

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

NGINX is a great product. best of class, easy to learn,deploy and use.

Pros

  • high performance
  • low resource usuage
  • efficient static file serving

Cons

  • to be more scale-able
  • to use lesser resource

Likelihood to Recommend

I think NGINX is good for those technologically less familiar

Vetted Review
NGINX
2 years of experience

My review

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Lightweight web server

Pros

  • Load balancing
  • Web servers
  • Proxy

Likelihood to Recommend

Easy to set up and deploy applications

Vetted Review
NGINX
10 years of experience

NGINX

Rating: 1 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use NGINX as a reverse proxy and load balancer in our enterprise architecture. We also use it to help improve website security in conjunction with Shape.

Pros

  • Load balancing
  • Improved security
  • Scalability

Cons

  • Relative complexity when configuring X-Cigna-True-client-IP
  • Code in a branch can be overwritten by the next comit
  • Creating a template to support routing to Shape was difficult due to complexity of architecture patterns

Likelihood to Recommend

NGINX is good for load balancing and improved security but is relatively complex to configure.

Vetted Review
NGINX
3 years of experience

NGINX Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Using NGINX for some Reverse Proxy services for security purposes. Helps to mask the IP address of our true IP Address. Looking to see what more we can do with NGINX like its load balancing function and web functions. <div>

</div><div>Moreover, with the new release of NGINX One. Could see what suits our needs </div>

Pros

  • Easy to configure
  • Easy to install
  • Not complex
  • Ridiculously easy
  • A lot of users therefore alotnof guides online

Cons

  • More functions for windows
  • Maybe could add replication or sync to the reverse proxy

Likelihood to Recommend

NGINX is good for load balancing and in scenarios where u require a reverse proxy for security

Vetted Review
NGINX
1 year of experience

NGINX review

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it mainly as an API Gateway Load Balancer

Pros

  • Load balancing

Cons

  • Can be quite inflexible at times

Likelihood to Recommend

When delivering a website and you require security and protection for your Kubernetes clusters or API gateways.

Vetted Review
NGINX
1 year of experience

NGINX review

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Use as a reverse proxy and web server.

Pros

  • Load balancing
  • Request routing
  • Zero downtime
  • Easy config

Cons

  • SSL offloading

Likelihood to Recommend

High SLA low latency environments

Light weight compute

Vetted Review
NGINX
4 years of experience

great

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Apache web server has replaced by NGINX server. could see potential benefits by using this product instead of apache. Infact its quite convenient to change the configuration sand easily scalable

Pros

  • flexible maintenance
  • easily scalable

Cons

  • SAML idp integration and routing

Likelihood to Recommend

i love to recommend this product to any of the web application or API's

Vetted Review
NGINX
20 years of experience

Recommended product

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Load balancing of the mobile trading application. The. Challenge is skill. To manage the appliance

Pros

  • Open source
  • Rich of feature
  • Stability

Cons

  • Web gui interface
  • Users familiar
  • Ease of management

Likelihood to Recommend

Very suitable for web load balacing

Vetted Review
NGINX
3 years of experience

NGINX the champion

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Using as a reverse Proxy

Using as a cache

Using SSL Offloading

Pros

  • Reverse Proxy
  • Caching
  • SSL Offloading
  • Response Headers Masking

Cons

  • Not all headers are being masked in basic NGINX.

Likelihood to Recommend

Can be used as a reverse proxy

Vetted Review
NGINX
15 years of experience