Apache HTTP Server vs. NGINX

Apache HTTP Server

98 Reviews and Ratings

NGINX

140 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Apache HTTP Server	Score8.4 out of 10	N/A	Apache Web Server (Apache HTTP Server) is an open source HTTP web server for modern operating systems including UNIX and Windows.	N/A
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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Apache HTTP Server

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Apache HTTP Server	NGINX
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	Apache HTTP Server	NGINX
Considered Both Products	Apache Verified User Chose Apache HTTP Server The comparison with other products from IBM or Oracle is difficult. These are mostly software that has to be paid for. The only fair comparison at eye level is probably the NGINX web server: It is also free and offers even higher performance. In the meantime, there is also a … Incentivized Helpful? Andrei Volodin Research Engineer in Research & Development at VizioChron (Research, 1-10 employees) Chose Apache HTTP Server Apache is more simple, also it tends to be more stable and it is less complicated to use, comparing with other complex solutions that are difficult to troubleshot. So wherever possible I select Apache HTTP Server for own/enterprise use also advise consumers to select the Apache … Incentivized Helpful? Ryan Prather Account Manager at AVOH.com (Media Production, 1-10 employees) Chose Apache HTTP Server Apache lacks the scalability and feature set of NGINX but our team was not only far more experienced with Apache HTTP Server but was relying on tools and frameworks that required Apache HTTP Server. We've recently considered moving to NGINX but the workload to migrate and train … Incentivized Helpful? Jason Smith, DPA Instructional Technologist in Information Technology at Pomona College (Higher Education, 201-500 employees) Chose Apache HTTP Server To be quite honest I often select Apache because it is the world's most commonly used web server and I have been using it for more than 20 years across many organizations. I have never been burned using Apache. Apache rises above IIS in functionality, configurability, and the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Apache HTTP Server Against Nginx: Mainly- it's been in the field the longest. There's not really a reason to move to Nginx on it's own. Apache has a mountain of documentation and how-tos that extend from the Foundation itself, to Individual Developers, spanning over 20 years, and most of it … Incentivized Helpful? Justin Roodman Product Marketing Manager in Marketing at nLyten Media LLC (Management Consulting, 1-10 employees) Chose Apache HTTP Server We chose Apache because it handles dynamic content better than Nginx and it's very well supported. Nginx does handle high traffic sites better, but most of our sites do not get thousands of visitors or more a day as we are a small company serving niche markets. It is notable … Incentivized Helpful? Josh Stapp Sr Application Developer in Engineering at EnsembleIQ (Computer Software, 201-500 employees) Chose Apache HTTP Server I have loved Apache and the brief experience I had with IIS wasn't as good. Nginx I have heard good things and though we use it heavily for our servers now without problems, I haven't configured it myself. Incentivized Helpful? Tyler Longren Wordpress Developer in Information Technology at Saltech Systems (Internet, 11-50 employees) Chose Apache HTTP Server Apache is often used in conjunction with Nginx, with Nginx in front of Apache to serve static assets like CSS and JS. Both are easy to configure. IIS is pretty cumbersome and is not as flexible as Apache. Incentivized Helpful? Chris Coppenbarger Web & Computer Programmer in Information Technology at Freelancer (Internet, 1-10 employees) Chose Apache HTTP Server Both Nginx and Apache are trying to accomplish the same thing, with the exception that Nginx is a much faster product. It allows for multi-threading which spreads out the traffic around the server. Apache is typically enabled by default and due to the high volume of websites … Incentivized Helpful? Rudolph Pereira Team Lead in Information Technology at Avalon Information Systems Pvt. Ltd. (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Apache HTTP Server Apache HTTP Server has more stability and features than the other products. It is also more secure. Apache HTTP Server has a more developer base so it is easier to find resources on it. Incentivized Helpful? Rahul Dhangar Web Technologist in Information Technology at Left Right Mind (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Apache HTTP Server Apache Web Server is the oldest among all of these above-mentioned web server solutions provide a wider range of tools and support available which is of great help when creating a web app because less investment of time and money is what contributes to the success of a project … Incentivized Helpful?	F5 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? 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? 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? 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? 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? Leonel Quinteros Director of Technology in Information Technology at Global Brigades, Inc. (Philanthropy, 51-200 employees) Chose NGINX Other Web servers are either not performant enough or locked to a platform. The main competitor in my opinion is the Apache Web Server, that can be extended in functionality through a diverse set of modules to perform almost any task related to a network server. But at scale, I … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose NGINX I selected Nginx because it is easy to learn, use, and maintain. I almost never have to troubleshoot it ever since I deploy it. It just meets my need for a personal learning experience. It works well with PHP and MySQL on Linux. That is why I chose it at first. Incentivized Helpful? Gregory Pecqueur Développeur Web Full Stack MEAN LAMP in Information Technology at digitalAtelier (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose NGINX We were happy to drop Apache to serve our applications. Incentivized Helpful? Rahul Dhangar Web Technologist in Information Technology at Left Right Mind (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees) Chose NGINX Microsoft IIS server is not open source and it comes with its own overhead in terms of cost which is not the case with Nginx as we do not need to purchase a handful of other products in order to get an HTTP server up and running. If I compare it to Apache Server, it … Incentivized Helpful? Nitin Bhadauria Manager DevOps in Information Technology at TO THE NEW (Information Technology and Services, 501-1000 employees) Chose NGINX Nginx works on basic operating system principles and what I like the most about it is that even after being feature-rich and easily customizable it uses minimum resources. Incentivized Helpful? Shea Bunge Web Developer in Information Technology at Incsub (Internet, 1-10 employees) Chose NGINX Apache has the advantage of being very widely supported and well-known, which makes integration with various tools and software simple, whereas Nginx often requires manual configuration to achieve the same thing. However, the ease of use, configurability, and relatively small … Incentivized Helpful? Gabriel Samaroo Senior Software Engineer in Engineering at Rocketrip (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose NGINX Apache is still widely used by the software community and can accomplish many of the same things Nginx can. Nginx is a better solution when you are serving static content (vs. dynamic content), are on a Unix-system, and have a high-traffic website. In addition, certain things … Incentivized Helpful? L Matthew Blancett Senior DevOps Engineer in Engineering at Conversant Inc. (formerly Dotomi) (Marketing and Advertising, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose NGINX NetApp, f1, etc., [I've] used them all. I find using commodity hardware across diverse endpoints running software solutions is cheaper while being more available than individual hardware solutions. and I find Nginx to be the best proxy solution that can do everything we need. Incentivized Helpful? Ilya Popovich QA Test Lead in Quality Assurance at Action-MCFR Mediagroup (Information Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose NGINX Configuration options are easier on Nginx. It's better suited for our cases. It's easier to find specialists for Nginx in our area. Incentivized Helpful? Jhonattan Smith Peláez Nimisica Líder de gestión de la configuración e infraestructura in Engineering at CODALTEC- Corporación de Alta Tecnología para la Defensa (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees) Chose NGINX When we did load and performance testing we got better results with Nginx Incentivized Helpful? Tyler Johnson Senior Software Architect in Engineering at Beneath The Ink (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose NGINX 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 … Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

Apache HTTP Server

NGINX

Comparison of Application Servers features of Apache HTTP Server and NGINX
Feature	Apache HTTP Server - Ratings	NGINX 7.8 21 Ratings
IDE support	00 Ratings	7.210 Ratings
Security management	00 Ratings	8.018 Ratings
Administration and management	00 Ratings	7.018 Ratings
Application server performance	00 Ratings	8.018 Ratings
Installation	00 Ratings	9.718 Ratings
Open-source standards compliance	00 Ratings	7.016 Ratings

User Ratings
	Apache HTTP Server	NGINX
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (20 ratings)	8.8 (48 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (1 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	9.3 (2 ratings)	8.1 (4 ratings)