We performed a comparison between NGINX Plus and Zend PHP Engine based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Infrastructure solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Using NGINX Plus for web traffic distribution is fantastic. It offers performance similar to physical load balancers but with added flexibility."
"NGINX Plus' most valuable feature is the ingress controller."
"I think installation only took a couple of minutes — no more than 10 minutes."
"Application Gateway with application-level firewall tool and load distributor and balancer (also serves for A/B testing)."
"Nginx is extremely efficient in terms of the connection rate to the CPU cycles ratio, and in terms of the bandwidth to CPU cycles."
"I need to highlight that the number one thing about NGINX is that it is free."
"The load balancing module, which is equivalent to LTM, is the focus of the PSE. So far, the features of both are identical. I believe NGINX has more features for securing these services, but in terms of load balancing, both are massive solutions."
"When you use NGINX, you have more options and power."
"It offers good support for various types of classes, along with many open source libraries that we can readily utilize in our application development process. This gives us a lot of options when it comes to custom development solutions, without having to worry about licensing or other programming-related issues."
"The cache modules that Zend provides have been able to optimize and accelerate the loading of the pages when there was exponential growth in data volume and quantity of requests. At the same time, the monitoring console allowed us to have a real-time understanding of the resources and to make decisions when they were at the limit."
"Zend PHP Engine is more secure than any other framework, and I usually prefer Zend PHP Engine for big applications."
"We have not encountered issues with scalability as long as we effectively use caching to optimize performance of our web applications as well as a proper use of database connectivity."
"The Zend Framework provides an easy, open source way to produce coding based on the needs of our customers."
"Zend Engine is the core of PHP. It makes PHP fast, efficient, and basically, the language of choice for web applications."
"Scaling up is an important factor for large projects, and with PHP 7 and its performance improvements, this becomes even easier."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the speed at which it compiles and sends the dynamic cache."
"They should do in the open source version of what they did to Advanced HTTP, TCP, and UDP load balancing."
"Make modules easier to enable or disable. The beauty and ugly side of the NGINX modules is you have to know how to compile the module. For beginners or non-very technical aspirant(s) going for NGINX, they have to learn how to compile the modules."
"The center management system could be improved."
"The drawback is that you must obtain a license for everything."
"I would suggest adding GUI-based configuration panels to NGINX Plus to simplify setup and management tasks."
"The KPI should be more focused on load balancing and the latency in application calling from the end system."
"Lack of a feature to print data on the terminal for verification of network traffic during debugging and testing."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model."
"The biggest problem with PHP is you have to write lot of conditions or have to use a framework."
"The solution can be quicker."
"The main area that Zend needs to improve is to support asynchronous programming tasks, which is facilitated in PHP 7, but not at the same degree as HHVM."
"Integration of MVC with ORM tools for PHP is okay, but lacking a short list of decent ORM tools for PHP to choose from; there is ample room for improvement in both areas."
"A general scripting language should be further developed and should be embedded into it."
"The process of installing and configuring the product is a bit complex and could be improved."
"In terms of improvement, it doesn't support concurrent processing. When we want to process anything on a concurrent basis, we have to divide it into a number of things, like a queue, or we have to run it using Cron jobs. We would like to have the capability to run any thread or process in parallel."
"Zend PHP Engine needs to improve the loading time of its libraries and make it faster."
NGINX Plus is ranked 2nd in Application Infrastructure with 27 reviews while Zend PHP Engine is ranked 12th in Application Infrastructure with 10 reviews. NGINX Plus is rated 8.8, while Zend PHP Engine is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zend PHP Engine writes "The fact that it is available open-source is the best feature". NGINX Plus is most compared with IIS, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Apache Web Server, whereas Zend PHP Engine is most compared with Apache Web Server. See our NGINX Plus vs. Zend PHP Engine report.
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