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

$$$$$

Alessio R.

Owner

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/7/2021

"Excellent lean web server"

5/5

What do you like best about F5 NGINX?

Performance and reliability has been very good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 NGINX?

Sometimes Nginx can be tedious to configure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Telecommunications

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/28/2021

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Nginx Reviews"

4/5

What do you like best about F5 NGINX?

Nginx is reliable and easy to use and good for every environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 NGINX?

Nginx integration for ModSecuirty is somehow difficult but once done its good to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/13/2019

"Amazing Proxy and Application Web Server"

4.5/5

What do you like best about F5 NGINX?

Few things are simply amazing:

1. Very dev friendly configurations.

2. Powerful.

3. Active Community and very good documentation.

4. configurable and pluggable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 NGINX?

TCP protocol is not supported. more LB algo support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering F5 NGINX:

Best HTTP proxing and LB mechanism. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Proxing, Reverse Proxing and Application and Web Server. We used Nginx as our gateway for all HTTP trafic. Logging is very easy and it is very easy to change LB algo anytime without downtime. It supports multiple use-cases and solving real problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Banking

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/27/2021

"Highly responsive"

4.5/5

What do you like best about F5 NGINX?

Most efficient to handle concurrent http requests Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 NGINX?

More efficient server to serve webpages Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vanshika S.

Software Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/27/2021

"it's good when it comes to load balancing"

4.5/5

What do you like best about F5 NGINX?

highly available server and good in loadbalancing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 NGINX?

nothing as such . Everything works so good with nginx Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nadhem M.

Software Engineer Intern

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/20/2020

"I worked on a freelance django project, and used Nginx"

5/5

What do you like best about F5 NGINX?

- Easy to set-up

- never crashes

- open source Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 NGINX?

- you need to have a minimum skill of bash programming Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gianluca C.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/5/2020

"I have been using it for years to manage an e-commerce website and never a block or a crash."

4.5/5

What do you like best about F5 NGINX?

Regarding nginx, I appreciate the fact that it is a stable and powerful web server, designed to handle large workloads of both HTTP and HTTPS requests with minimal necessary maintenance and truly minimal resources. When managing an e-commerce site in PHP with a possibly outdated or not recent CMS, it is essential to have a foundation infrastructure capable of handling complex requests and managing a greater number of PHP processes without slowing down or blocking the user experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 NGINX?

Configuring nginx is not easy, you need to have a lot of patience and good knowledge of both networking and the Linux environment to be able to correctly operate on configuration files, certificates, and permissions, and to be able to perform tuning of the software component parameters and everything that needs to manage requests to the process manager of your choice (if configured as a web-proxy). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering F5 NGINX:

The internet is full of how-to guides and FAQ pages that can guide a user in the initial setup of nginx and its dependencies on both Linux and Windows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Hosting in cluster scenarios and high availability of an obsolete or outdated web app is not a simple operation to perform with current web providers and web hosting, thanks to nginx I was able to configure my own hosting cluster by purchasing only the VPS with the operating system installed without having to go through management panels like cPanel or phpmyadmin. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Fabrizio T.

IT Support Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/12/2019

"Everything a web server can offer packed into 40 MB"

5/5

What do you like best about F5 NGINX?

Nginx was born as a proxy server but offers various interesting and extremely useful features that make it suitable to be deployed in different types of environments: from content delivery networks to web apps firewalls & IDPS, from load balancing of web apps to intermediation in transparent proxy mode with compatible external process managers. In short, everything a "web server" should offer is encapsulated in a cross-platform package of just over 40 MB, totally scalable and extendable with dozens of modules, even custom ones, and maintained for free by an active community in the field of open source. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 NGINX?

I found very few flaws in nginx, the only noteworthy one that actually led to an improvement in our infrastructure concerns the inability to graphically monitor the various nodes and the status of services in GUI mode, which can be easily resolved by purchasing the affordable subscription to nginx plus. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The need to separate the blog files and corporate website, as well as those of some clients, to improve performance and speed up loading has made it necessary to design and deploy an open-source content delivery network at no cost other than for energy and hardware maintenance. This is achieved through nginx, thanks to its excellent capability to serve files and static content and the free nginx secure module, which can enable authentication via hash in the HTTPS GET request to access the content, whether it is a page, an image, or a video. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Carmelo L.

Cloud Architect

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/12/2019

"Web proxy but not only, security and stability at your fingertips!"

4/5

What do you like best about F5 NGINX?

nginx is the quintessential web server and web proxy, an excellent cross-platform server (though it performs better on Linux) that is free, open source, and fully customizable, allowing for maximum performance even from web apps with heavy workloads or massive connections, such as the continuous and heavy demand for static content. The additional free modules (to activate them, just place them in a specific directory) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 NGINX?

nginx is the quintessential web server and web proxy, an excellent cross-platform server (but it performs better on Linux) that is free, open source, and fully customizable, allowing for maximum performance even from web apps with heavy workloads or massive connections, such as the continuous and heavy demand for static content. The additional free modules (to activate them, just place them in a specific directory) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I had an immediate need to create a private content delivery network (CDN) with secure authentication using temporary tokens through md5 hash or superior technologies to serve images and static content but protected by privacy. Thanks to nginx and the nginx secure authentication module, I was able to set up my corporate personal CDN in a few minutes, free and with uptime and performance comparable to a paid enterprise CDN. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/14/2020

"One of the base pillars of the internet as of now"

5/5

What do you like best about F5 NGINX?

The configuration is really easy without removing any advanced options and it has a huge community backing it up Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 NGINX?

I dont really find any disadvantage big enough to highlight it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.