F5 NGINX Reviews & Product Details

The fact that it is much faster than Apache. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

A bit more to config than Apache, but that's okay because it makes it better at the same time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nginx takes some of the voodoo out of web servers. I can get up and running quickly with caching, compression, ssl stapling, and other things that can be tricky on other systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I miss the options to use all other very powerful products under the Apache umbrella. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Speed. Using it as a front end proxy for Django WSGI server, I'm able to realize much better performance for concurrent sessions than a typical HTTPD setup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing. It's free, easy to set up, and does what I need it to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nginx is very solid for my needs. I've never run into any trouble with it, even under higher loads. The ease of reloading configuration changes is a high point, as is the smart syntax of its configuration. In addition, since the configuration is very flexible, I've been able to easily configure SSL connections to meet the stringent encryption security requirements demanded by our customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It doesn't have as large a community as Apache HTTPd, and a lot of software assumes you're using that. This often means translating configuration to something compatible with nginx. The rewrite syntax is very different than that of mod_rewrite (for Apache HTTPd), and often cannot be transliterated directly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The increase in the efficiency of our application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I haven't found anything until now and nothing will be found in future as well Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Using nginx is such an obvious thing in any environment that it is even hard to explain for people not familiar with it.

It is amazingly versatile for any kind of setup and I've been using it as a load balancer, a steamer, as a web application firewall. Even used it to fetch HTML directly from a memcache server with just a simple configuration file. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While having the ability to do Apache style .htaccess configurations per directory would help people coming from that mentality. I don't necessarily see that as a good thing to have. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Open source, high performance webserver (and beyond with the modules) that can scale large amounts of connections without an issue. A lot of the additional modules provide support for other features or protocols - and in the newest versions, modules can be dynamically loaded too now.

Nginx provides very fast support when used as the front-end webserver and proxying back to another one [locally], such as Apache for the specific applications that may require .htaccess to still work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I'm not entirely sure there's a whole lot to dislike about it. Nginx is pretty much a drop in replacement for any other webserver using different SAPI's via fastcgi instead or modules. It does lack .htaccess support that is still ever so needed at times based on customer applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This is very easy to setup web servers on different ports. The configuration documentation is easy to understand and there are plenty of discussion boards to find help on how to make a configuration change. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The version of Nginx supplied with Ubuntu 14.04 did not come with many modules. This is remedied by using the Nginx repository to install Nginx. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nginx is such a versatile application, it serves for a lot of purposes! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The fact that it allows so many possibilities, also make it challenging to tune in sometimes! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nginx is a web server of choice in terms of performance and handling heavy load and web traffic. If we are talking about an open-source web server, Apache is the most well-known HTTP server among developers but Nginx is the one that addresses the performance and scalability problem of Apache. Nginx's asynchronous and event-driven structure is more efficient than Apache. To sum up, Go Nginx for applications that require high concurrency, high performance and multi-threading. For small and medium scaled web applications, Apache can handle just fine and also its built-in supports of some programming languages is also pretty nice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think it is better to compare the drawbacks of Nginx over Apache. Apache is a lot older than Nginx, which means that Apache community is bigger and more available modules and extensions than Nginx. Also, it doesn't work quite well with Windows OS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.