#1 most frequent
United States of America
31.1%2,357,597 installations of 7,589,144
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
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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: 7.3
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
Who Buys & Uses NGINX
#2 most frequent
Germany
6.5%493,510 installations of 7,589,144
#3 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
6.4%484,384 installations of 7,589,144
