F5 NGINX Reviews & Product Details

It can be installed in a Linux and Windows environment with a single command from the terminal, the configuration is relatively simple and well described with examples for every situation (the web is full of snippets anyway), the feature I love is the ability to execute proxy pass to your own PHP or Node.js web app without it being exposed outside the local network, it's a great security feature to also allow parsing of access logs to any firewalls. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

in the community version, there is no GUI to be able to control the active services and their status in detail, it's a pity to have to use external tools to obtain such a feature! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

NGINX is capable of using various features and functionalities to reduce page loading time drastically. It happens as local file structures are distributed through databases for some programs. It provides a small storage footprint, high efficiency, easy maintenance, and it is scalable, configurable and versatile. I was able to install NGINX directly without the bottleneck. We can also build entirely different nodes from the NGINX variants of the same platform. Also, it includes many choices available for the deduplication mechanism that can be configured in almost any way possible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

NGINX monitoring has a less comprehensive list of components than other similar tools, like Apache. It also has low support of the community. I wish NGINX could offer better controls that can track the logs in an ideal manner, as it will allow the system administrator to use it in a more versatile way rather than using Unix commands to pick specific things. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

These are web servers with load balancing features with content caching, session persistence, configuration via API, etc. You can achieve things with Nginx, more than you would otherwise need hardware load balancing for. Improve the dynamic content performance with microcaching. It is capable of handling huge clients with less memory and welcomed speed and efficiency compared to other web servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It does not have functions or wizards to create forms easily, there are no starting templates, and the official documentation of the non-plus version leaves something to be desired as it is quite outdated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

nginx has always been dedicated to the possibility of being a scalable and adaptable web server for different types of environments, whether it is an environment dedicated to serving web apps, a process manager behind a proxy, or a web implementation of a CDN, that is, a content delivery network designed to serve static content such as images, videos, photos, style sheets, files, datasets to reduce the load on the actual web server that will execute the loading of the HTML code to correctly display the page structure, thus speeding up operations and the loading time of a website. The CDN functionality can be achieved with a relatively simple configuration as it only requires configuring the paths to serve static files and then enabling the official free nginx secure authentication module on those paths to ensure that the CDN content can be viewed only by users in possession of a token or an md5 hash or superior technologies included in the GET request, all of this for free and without having to use an expensive external secure CDN service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is absolutely nothing I dislike about nginx; I consider it to be an absolutely perfect web server and web proxy, at least for now. The only small flaw I've noticed is the lack of official documentation in Italian, but this can be easily remedied and resolved by purchasing dozens of books about nginx from Italian authors and devops engineers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nginx requires so few resources compared to Apache. In the same way that the Chrome browser has replaced industry experts, Nginx has provided us with an excellent alternative to Apache. I use Nginx to run some popular open source software and it works great. We have also used it as a load balancer in the past because it is an affordable alternative to commercial load balancers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The configuration can be a bit complicated. Most web applications are ready to be deployed via Apache, and you have to play with the nginx configuration to make it work. If you want it to work with something like PHP, you need to have PHP running as a server and it cannot simply be loaded into Nginx as a module. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

nginx is one of those, if not the only proxy server that includes within itself dozens if not hundreds of applications for use. Beyond its main role as a proxy server, it can also perform DIVINELY load balancing at extreme and fully customizable levels towards dozens of different application servers, from nodeJS to PHP fastCGI process manager. Last but not least is the feature of a static web server capable of natively supporting, without any additional application server, the hosting of static HTML web pages or static content (perfect for creating content delivery networks or CDNs to serve files). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like everything about nginx, but the initial configuration process should be slightly revised to provide the user with the option to install the main process managers for web apps (from Ruby on Rails to PHP7) during the installation phase. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You can install nginx with a single command from Linux CLI and it can be easily configured to better adapt on every type of deployment you need: from load balancer for multi-nodes environment to static html web server, from nodejs or php proxy pass to web application firewall to parse logs through your IDS/IPS system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Having a little GUI to manage hosts and listen addresses would be perfect, it's very hard to manage hundreds of hosts from CLI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1) I mainly like its compatibility with Linux and Windows, to work on any stable platform.

2) The execution is more optimized, faster because I decide that it is loaded to avoid wasting time in processes.

3) Configuration is easier than Apache Server, web server load balancing and proxy server response with static content. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The configuration at the beginning is difficult due to the change of language and adaptation to the new server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You can easily create a configuration file to use nginx as a reverse proxy to pass parameters and request to your PHP process manager without having to insecurely expose on the internet-side your PHP FPM, NodeJS or FastCGI server, very useful to avoid DDoS, DoS and vulnerability scanning attacks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There's nothing I can dislike, nginx do its job in a perfect way and it's very stable and suitable for a production environment an business-critical deployment type Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You can create unlimited hosts in a single conf file so you can host with a single server more website and proxy the incoming requests without open different port than 80 and 443 for HTTPS.

Is also good to hide real ip address of the listening web server Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

No support or example templates in conf file, especially when you install and you are trying to configure it on Linux based OS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.