F5 NGINX Reviews & Product Details

NGINX, Inc. is the company behind NGINX, the popular open source project trusted by more than 400 million sites. We offer a suite of technologies for developing and delivering modern applications. The NGINX Application Platform enables enterprises undergoing digital transformation to modernize legacy, monolithic applications as well as deliver new, microservices‑based applications. Companies like Netflix, Starbucks, and McDonalds rely on NGINX to reduce costs, improve resiliency, and speed innovation. NGINX investors include Blue Cloud Ventures, e.ventures, Goldman Sachs, Index Ventures, MSD Capital, NEA, Runa Capital, and Telstra Ventures. NGINX, Inc. is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, with an EMEA head office in Cork, Ireland and APAC head office in Singapore. Learn more at https://www.nginx.com/

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Languages Supported

English

Solution Type

All-in-One

Overview by

Chase Abbott

Pricing

Pricing provided by Nginx.

NGINX Plus, Single Instance

Starting at $2500

per year

NGINX WAF

$2000

per year

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User Insights

Average based on 113 real user reviews.

Implementation Time

1 month

Perceived Cost

$$$$$

Jai A.

Information Technology Project Manager

Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/20/2021

"F5 NGINX is the web server you definitely need!"

4.5/5

What do you like best about F5 NGINX?

F5 NGINX is free and open-source and can be used for all our web services. It is easy to implement, and we can set up our website within a minute. It is highly customized and can support HTTPS and other custom servers. The company has provided the best learning documentations for the users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 NGINX?

Needs improvements in the user interface (GUI). The pricing may be a challenge for small and mid-sized organizations. Less community database and support. Sometimes SSL handling is a challenge. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering F5 NGINX:

You can go with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is F5 NGINX solving and how is that benefiting you?

Problems: Less known in online tech communities compared to the similar solutions available in the market. Sometimes required manual configurations. Benefits: Requires low resource usage. Low memory requirement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Consumer Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/14/2022

"Ultra fast web server with load balancing capabilities"

4.5/5

What do you like best about F5 NGINX?

The web server is super fast and extremely easy to configure. The best option is that you can use it for load balancing as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 NGINX?

Pricing could be a showstopper for some of the projects Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Joseph S.

Product Manager

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/26/2021

"Excellent Load Balancing HTTPS Server"

4.5/5

What do you like best about F5 NGINX?

Simple, easy-to-use, powerful HTTPS server. The load balancing is one of the best I've ever seen. I currently only use the free version, but it does everything I need it to do. It's lightweight and doesn't use many resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 NGINX?

Nothing major comes to mind; I have yet to find a significant flaw or something I wish it did better. I do think it can take a long time to configure, and you will have to troubleshoot for sure, but that is normal with these types of products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dzmitry S.

Senior Deployment Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/1/2021

"nginx review"

5/5

What do you like best about F5 NGINX?

Nginx is a powerful web server and a load balancer I like the most among other solutions. It is fast and highly flexible. I am using it with many plugins for the backend and frontend. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 NGINX?

Sometimes it is tough to configure it, and you need to have good experience to manage it properly. However, community and mail lists will help you in that, so it should not be a blocker for you, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Andriy S.

Back End Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/17/2020

"The reverse proxy product that does everything you need"

5/5

What do you like best about F5 NGINX?

The best feature of nginx is its reliability and simplicity. It's very easy to start - when it starts it installs the default "pure html" website. It's compatible with all web-add-ons on the market. And its free version is capable of providing all that a developer needs. It forces developers to use best practices and does not leave major vulnerabilities. Nginx is free and it was my choice to host all our websites. It has huge popularity, so any question on Stack Overflow is answered immediately. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 NGINX?

Its documentation is not logically structured and contains "long sentences that do not make much sense". It was probably automatically translated from Russian. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering F5 NGINX:

Just try to use nginx especially with nodejs or simple html websites. Use letsencrypt to automatically generate SSL certificates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is F5 NGINX solving and how is that benefiting you?

Website hosting, the major advantage is that it has everything a major web developer needs, generating logs that can be analyzed by almost all log-analytical systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Banking

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/8/2021

"F5 Nginx"

4/5

What do you like best about F5 NGINX?

Easy to understand, implement & more options then LTM Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 NGINX?

Every time you make changes to config file need to reload it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Automotive

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/5/2021

"Nginx is good server"

2.5/5

What do you like best about F5 NGINX?

The configuration file is easy to write for different websites Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 NGINX?

Can't be able to check logs of nginx I can't be able to find log file Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amogh H.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/13/2020

"Best Web Server I Have Used"

5/5

What do you like best about F5 NGINX?

One main advantage of Nginx over a web server like Apache is that Nginx does not set up a new process for each web request but rather the default configuration is to have one worker process per CPU. Nginx can also be used in various scenarios like:

It can act as a reverse proxy server for TCP, UDP, HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, POP3, and IMAP protocols

It can act as a load balancer and an HTTP cache

It is very lightweight hence requires fewer resources / memory

Able to handle 10k+ simultaneous connections with a low memory footprint Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 NGINX?

Less community support and documentation than other web servers like Apache, but probably more than enough depending on your expertise and use case. Not as many modules / extensions as Apache. Could be difficult to understand how to configure initially, but once you get the hang of it, it's pretty simple to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering F5 NGINX:

Go for it. It's a very lightweight web server with minimum needs for resources. Very useful for deploying websites for small companies/startups on a small VM on AWS/Azure, works even with 1 CPU and 1 GB RAM. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is F5 NGINX solving and how is that benefiting you?

We run multiple websites using Nginx, including websites serving static content like Angular and also dynamic content like Ruby on Rails projects. The benefits I have realized are monetary as Nginx can be used on small configurations like 1 GB RAM and 1 CPU on VMs on Azure/AWS and works flawlessly for websites built using Angular, which are very common these days. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Telecommunications

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/5/2021

"DevOps Engineer best load balancer"

4/5

What do you like best about F5 NGINX?

Best and lightweight application, which can be configured very easily Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 NGINX?

I don't see any dislike about the Nginx but if we could work on GUI based load analysis Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Milad N.

Researcher

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/23/2021

"One of the best http servers"

5/5

What do you like best about F5 NGINX?

Nginx is very easy to use, Nginx is very easy to configure and you can configure a very complex setup in just a few hours. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 NGINX?

Nothing really, but if I have to, my main comment would be it is much harder to compile nginx from scratch compared to Apache especially on custom OSs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.