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 When managing an e-commerce site in PHP with a possibly outdated or not recent CMS, it is essential to have a foundation infrastructure capable of handling complex requests and managing a greater number of PHP processes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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

nginx is a guarantee in terms of stability in business-critical environments where maximum reliability is required, load balancing, and failover across 5-6 tiers ready to act in case of outages. As if that weren't enough, it also finds application outside the web server field: it is indeed capable of operating as a web proxy, anti-DDoS, intrusion detection and prevention system, and web application firewall, extremely useful features that find applications both in the IoT world and in the web of our days more generally. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Wanting to look at nginx with a critical eye, I could say that the only flaw is the extreme complexity of certain types of configurations necessary for high availability deployments. They are not well documented and cannot be generated at all from the dedicated nginx plus panel (for those with an active subscription). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

nginx is top of the line, free, in the category of web proxies and web app servers, but not only that, what amazes and pleases me is the part that the nginx team has dedicated to the security of infrastructures and web apps. It allows for anti-DDoS load balancing, access log control through parsing, IP address limitations, and useful features like the ability to communicate with multiple PHP or nodeJS nodes without having to expose these nodes outside the LAN network, but using, indeed, nginx as a transparent proxy to serve web content without losing or affecting HTTPS and the related domain certificate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I totally like it, the only downside is the lack of official documentation for those who choose, perhaps just for a trial, the free version and not the plus one. I imagine it's a market choice, but unfortunately, in this way, those who install it have no way to fully discover the magnificent features of this proxy server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I use nginx solely for its web proxy functionality. I got to know it by hosting a small web server for my website (static HTML pages) and started researching its features until I proposed it as a replacement for our old corporate web proxy at work due to its stability, real-time intrusion and DDOS prevention controls, and the scalability it allows in multi-node and cluster environments. This is what I love and know about nginx, but I know it can do much more and I hope to discover it soon! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The connection with PHP FastCGI (that is, the PHP process manager to which you execute a proxy pass to run PHP pages) is really time-consuming and labor-intensive because there are no clear examples, and all the documentation, when compared, offers different methods without explaining which one and why it is the best (official documentation, moreover). It is an easily avoidable issue but leaves a bit of a bitter taste. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

nginx is a web proxy only on paper because among its many features it allows you to operate as an application firewall, load balancer (with standard algorithms or with its own criteria), web server for pages and static content (very useful for CDNs), and as anti-DDoS protection as well as a system for prevention and protection against intrusions and unauthorized access aimed at attack.

The web dashboard is also very useful as it allows you to manage all related services and configurations and to have a complete overview of the state of nginx. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For users who do not purchase the Plus version, the official documentation is minimal and does not cover any more advanced configurations (nor does it provide examples) such as the configuration of HA active-active, failover, load balancing, and some proxy pass constructs for PHP FastCGI and nodeJS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The protection of web applications from attacks at much lower levels than those used by the applications is now a common global plague. The continuous attacks suffered by our web apps (DoS and the like) have led us to evaluate some solutions, and among all the very expensive solutions, we have chosen the only free, open-source, and probably the most reliable one, namely nginx. It is easy to configure, does its job excellently in transparent mode, and allows for complete visibility of what happens between the nodes and between the individual segments of the web apps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The configuration as a web application firewall is not always clear, and it is often necessary to rely on external and unofficial resources and tutorials to achieve the desired or necessary result without having to involve technicians or paid support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In the company, we use nginx for various purposes, among the most common and best features is the ability to act as a proxy server with a fast and simple textual configuration so that it "runs" and forwards all requests to an active and reachable nodeJS process manager or PHP fastCGI on the internal network only. In this way, total segmentation is achieved, and it is possible to expose only nginx as the proxy server of your web app and not the process manager directly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The test mode that can be activated from the command line with nginx -t returns errors in a simple and summary way, so there is no way to understand what to fix in the configuration. Unfortunately, it is not a true debugging mode. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.