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NGINX

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What is NGINX?

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 applications with performance, reliability, security, and scale. This includes NGINX Plus for load balancing, reverse proxy, and application delivery controller features, NGINX App Protect for high performance web application firewall security, and NGINX Unit to run the application code, all monitored and managed by the NGINX Controller.
  • NGINX Plus: An all‑in‑one load balancer, web server, and content cache.
  • NGINX Controller: Centralized monitoring and management for NGINX Plus.
  • NGINX App Protect: Web application firewall, powered by F5
  • NGINX Unit: Lightweight application server, with support for multiple languages and a dynamic REST API‑driven configuration
  • NGINX Ingress Controller: Traffic management solution for cloud‑native apps in Kubernetes and containerized environments.
  • NGINX Service Mesh: Lightweight, Turnkey, Developer-Friendly Service Mesh Using NGINX Plus as an Enterprise Sidecar

Categories & Use Cases

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features NGINX has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 140 ratings of NGINX's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Installation

    Ease of download and installation

    Category average: 8.5

  • Security management

    Integrated security management for applications

    Category average: 8.3

  • Application server performance

    Speed of deploy time, initialization time and other performance metrics

    Category average: 8.3

Areas for Improvement

  • IDE support

    Support for a number of different programming environments or IDEs

    Category average: 7.4

  • Administration and management

    Ease of management via administration console

    Category average: 7.6

  • Open-source standards compliance

    Support for open-source standards like J2EE

    Category average: 7.9

Most Frequent Users

Top 3 industries using NGINX
Based on HG Insights installation data
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#1 most frequent

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

8.2%

461,263 installations of 5,659,633

#2 most frequent

Manufacturing

3.6%

204,882 installations of 5,659,633

#3 most frequent

Other Services (except Public Administration)

3.1%

173,110 installations of 5,659,633

Reviews

What users are saying about NGINX.
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Great NGINX ehh

Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (11-50 employees employees)

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

Return on Investment

  • positive ROI - easy to deploy
  • positive ROI - easy to use

Usability

Other Software Used

NGINX Plus

My review

Incentivized
Verified User
Employee in Information Technology (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Lightweight web server

Pros

  • Load balancing
  • Web servers
  • Proxy

Usability

NGINX

Incentivized
Verified User
Project Manager in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

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

Usability

Solution for Reverse Proxy

Incentivized
Puru MG
Technical Solution Consultant in Legal at DXC (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use as a Reverse Proxy

Pros

  • Reverse Proxy
  • SSL
  • Caching
  • CIPHERS

Cons

  • Should implement in Windows
  • Web Interface

Return on Investment

  • Easy to explain to client

Alternatives Considered

NGINX Plus

Other Software Used

NGINX Plus

NGINX Forward Proxy is the way to go!

Incentivized
Ian Walmsley
Solutions Architect in Information Technology at Skaletek Solutions (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use the NGINX forward proxy manager to manage a few sites coming into the network. all websites with different domains.

Pros

  • reading TCP headers for forwarding
  • forwarding traffic flawlessly
  • Let's Encrypt compatibility

Cons

  • add load balancer into basic proxy manager
  • better initial SSL documentation

Return on Investment

  • we haven't made moves to do a spend so no ROI needs yet
  • we are worried about the neglect of SMB segemnt perhaps.. smaller dollars

Other Software Used

F5 BIG-IP

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