We compared IIS and NGINX Plus based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
IIS and NGINX Plus both offer robust performance and excellent customer support, with IIS focusing on seamless integration with Microsoft products and extensive security measures, while NGINX Plus stands out for scalability and load balancing capabilities. IIS is praised for its user-friendly interface and pricing transparency, whereas NGINX Plus receives positive feedback for its performance optimization and flexible pricing. Areas for improvement include enhancing performance, increasing reliability, addressing security concerns, and improving user interface for IIS, while NGINX Plus users seek more advanced features in load balancing, better documentation, improved integration, and expanded protocol support. Overall, both products have positive returns on investment, with users expressing satisfaction with their benefits and value.
Features: The valuable features of IIS include robust performance, seamless integration with other Microsoft products, extensive security measures, a user-friendly interface, and outstanding support. In comparison, NGINX Plus offers scalability, efficient handling of high traffic loads, robust load balancing, advanced caching, seamless integration with applications and tools, performance optimization, reliable session persistence, and comprehensive monitoring capabilities.
Pricing and ROI: The setup cost for IIS is mentioned to be straightforward with no additional expenses. On the other hand, NGINX Plus is regarded as both reasonable and straightforward in terms of setup cost. Users find the pricing and licensing structure of both products to be reasonable and transparent., The ROI from IIS implementation has been highly positive and beneficial based on user feedback. Users also reported positive returns on investment with NGINX Plus, expressing satisfaction with its benefits and value.
Room for Improvement: IIS has room for improvement in performance, reliability, security, user interface, compatibility, and documentation. In comparison, users believe NGINX Plus could benefit from advanced load balancing features, improved documentation, better integration, and expanded protocol support.
Deployment and customer support: The reviews for IIS suggest that the duration required for establishing a new tech solution can range from one week to three months, with varying timeframes for deployment and setup. In contrast, the reviews for NGINX Plus indicate that the duration can vary from several months to a week, with separate timeframes for deployment and setup. The reviews highlight that the time required for establishing the tech solution using NGINX Plus can vary based on individual needs and circumstances., IIS's customer service is highly praised for their helpfulness, responsiveness, and expertise in addressing technical issues. They provide prompt assistance, clear guidance, practical solutions, and are willing to go the extra mile. NGINX Plus also receives positive feedback for their customer service. Users appreciate the prompt and effective assistance, knowledgeable support team, thorough explanations, and excellent customer service experience. They feel valued and supported throughout their interactions.
The summary above is based on 48 interviews we conducted recently with IIS and NGINX Plus users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"The tool shows us the operating systems where our servers and applications are running."
"The solution is easy to use."
"IIS is easy to configure in terms of websites and other solutions."
"Microsoft's technical support has always been very good."
"The product is scalable."
"The solution is very simple to use and easy to deploy."
"The product is easy to configure."
"The initial setup is simple."
"When I worked in a security research center, we tested NGINX to support DoS and DDoS attacks, and its results were great."
"Zero Downtime has always been a strength in recommending infrastructure web services. NGINX allows me to execute such infrastructure with less complications and the ability to switch from server to server easily."
"The product is lightweight and fast."
"Using NGINX Plus for web traffic distribution is fantastic. It offers performance similar to physical load balancers but with added flexibility."
"Nginx is simple to configure, very stable in a highly utilized environment and very modular, allowing DevOps to create it's own modules for interactive use with Nginx."
"NGINX works much better than HAProxy in our current hardware and architecture for HTTP/HTTPS load balancing. "
"The robust software architecture allows for it to be scalable and very stable."
"Application Gateway with application-level firewall tool and load distributor and balancer (also serves for A/B testing)."
"The documentation of IIS could be better. They are not easily accessible. I had to use YouTube and other online resources to learn how to use the solution properly."
"It would be beneficial if you could automate security certificate monitoring with IIS."
"IIS could improve by Microsoft Windows improving the update services. We would like to be able to update all systems that are connected. The WSA service has to be in good order to accomplish this."
"The level of technical support the solution offers could be improved."
"The areas of this solution that need improvement are monitoring, debugging, and troubleshooting."
"The tool needs to improve its performance."
"The solution's stability needs improvement."
"The scalability depends on how you have set it up. If you're running IIS on a single server, it might not be as capable as if you are on many in a cluster or with load balancing and so on."
"I would like it to have a more user-friendly graphical interface."
"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 solution's GUI is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"The drawback is that you must obtain a license for everything."
"The scalability could be improved."
"The KPI should be more focused on load balancing and the latency in application calling from the end system."
"They should do in the open source version of what they did to Advanced HTTP, TCP, and UDP load balancing."
"NGINX is a very basic load balancer and cannot do as many customizations as F5."
IIS is ranked 1st in Application Infrastructure with 53 reviews while NGINX Plus is ranked 2nd in Application Infrastructure with 27 reviews. IIS is rated 8.0, while NGINX Plus is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of IIS writes " A simple and easy-to-use solution but not recommended for public apps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". IIS is most compared with Apache Web Server, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tomcat, JBoss and Microsoft .NET Framework, whereas NGINX Plus is most compared with HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Apache Web Server and Citrix NetScaler. See our IIS vs. NGINX Plus report.
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