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Robert A. C.

Director of Marketing

Retail

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/21/2023

"Nginx, Open Source Proxy Server"

5/5

What do you like best about F5 NGINX?

The tool is very fast and efficient, especially for companies that need to handle high volumes of data in their day-to-day operations. The software is easily configurable and allows to be highly scalable which greatly facilitates the tasks to be performed within it. Being an open source tool, it can be modified according to the needs of the companies that require it and it is also free, which makes it a very practical solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 NGINX?

For Spanish-speaking users it is a little more complicated because the documentation in English is quite extensive, which can cause difficulty in users who are not native speakers of the language. It is a little known solution even in comparison with others like Apache, which makes it difficult to find help or technical support in many occasions. It does not have a sufficiently usable customer service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Nginx is a server and a reverse proxy that has been gaining popularity, with an open source system, it is usable as a web server for uploading content, proxy and beacon, it is also possible to use it as a proxy to mount an online application, achieving a wide range of advantages that can afford different organizations. It is important because it allows cost savings and fast performance, therefore, Nginx is an excellent option, it is efficient and quite fast, it does not have a large scale when performing integrations, so it is possible that there are better options in the market that allow complementing the processes within different types of organizations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AI

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/17/2023

"F5 Nginx: A Reliable and secure load balancing tool"

5/5

What do you like best about F5 NGINX?

Here's what's fascinating about F5 Nginx:

1. Fast and Reliable Loadbalancing - NGINX is known for its high performance and ability to handle many simultaneous connections with a low memory footprint. This is especially apparent when dealing with static content.

2. Scalability: NGINX is designed for scalability, making it an excellent choice for both small projects and large-scale, high-traffic applications.

3. Modules and extensions: The modular architecture allows users to extend its capabilities by adding modules, whether they're third-party or built by the community.

4. Built-in Caching: NGINX’s built-in HTTP cache delivers accelerated content to users, reducing the load on application servers and backend systems.

5. Security: Features such as rate limiting, connection limiting, and the ability to defend against certain types of DDoS attacks make NGINX a secure choice for many deployments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 NGINX?

Cost: NGINX Plus, the commercial version, comes at a cost. For organizations or individuals on a tight budget, this can be a deterrent, especially when the open-source version is freely available.

Documentation: While there's a significant amount of documentation available, some users feel that certain advanced topics or use cases aren't covered in depth.

F5 Transition Concerns: Post F5's acquisition of NGINX, there were concerns in the community about the future direction of the platform and how it might affect the open-source version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Mostly, we're using it as a secure and scalable load-balancing tool. It's lightweight. Recently, we also started using the Nginx ingress controller over the Azure Kubernetes services. The performance we're getting is satisfactory at the moment and we don't see a problem in advanced level configurations as well. It's possible to be grasped easily now with the help of AI tools like ChatGpt and Bard.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Abhas B.

DevOps Specialist

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/7/2023

"One of the best and reliable load balancer and reverse proxy setup"

3.5/5

What do you like best about F5 NGINX?

It is one stop for all your web trafic whether be kubernetes, API gateway, load balancer or reverse proxy.

I have nginx ingress controller over the time in my Organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 NGINX?

Sometime is hard to identify where the issue lies or map the traffice flow.

Logging part can be improved for troubleshooting the web traffice flow and identify the complexity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AR

Verified User in Retail

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/5/2023

"A DevOps Game-Changer."

5/5

What do you like best about F5 NGINX?

F5 nginx is a game changer for me as a DevOps Engineer. It's fast and reliable, really easy to setup. I've never had to reach out to F5 for support since the community is big enough and answers most of the queries that I don't find in documentation. Definitely a must have fir web applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 NGINX?

License is a bit expensive. Smaller organisations might look for alternatives.

It lacks some built-in features like monitoring/logging/log analysis

Resource hungry but that depends on the use case. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Abhinav S.

Senior devops

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/5/2023

"Review for f5 nginx"

4.5/5

What do you like best about F5 NGINX?

The F5 nginx load balancer helps in path based routing with implementation of CORS policy and Rate Limiting.It also gives support for host based routing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 NGINX?

The only thing which causes sometimes the error is the dashboard not syncing the data properly for error codes coming during traffic flow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Vladimir T.

Ingeniero y Desarrollador

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/8/2023

"Performant web server"

4/5

What do you like best about F5 NGINX?

A lot of possibilities either to Server directly web pages or with php or other languages using cgi or proxy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 NGINX?

It can be difficult to debug the configuration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Satyam K.

NodeJS Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/5/2023

"Great Experiece with NGINX"

5/5

What do you like best about F5 NGINX?

Easy to Use, Easy to Install and Easy to Setup, also NGINX running smoothly over Apache Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 NGINX?

There is nothing to dislike, and Everything will be fine Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AM

Verified User in Marketing and Advertising

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/29/2017

"Faster Webserver Ever Used"

5/5

What do you like best about F5 NGINX?

High Performance and easy configuration through console. Very powerful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 NGINX?

Compared to Apache there are not many third party managment tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UP

Verified User in Program Development

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/7/2023

"Good"

5/5

What do you like best about F5 NGINX?

Everything is great. Made developers easy to handle Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 NGINX?

I'm still going through it. If anything found unsatisfying i'll definitely comment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Oscar P.

Software engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/10/2022

"Reverse proxy"

4/5

What do you like best about F5 NGINX?

Generate data and documentation, free code to add to the server and organize data in the system, activity control and backup records.

Perfect using system resources and IMAP email with full synchronization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 NGINX?

Compile to add legacy software to the main system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.