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 most valuable feature of the solution is that it is easy to use and easy to understand."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The tool is very easy to use and efficient."
"IIS's best features are its management console and stability."
"The solution is simple and very easy to manage compared to Linux."
"The interface, simplicity, and ease of management are all good features that make this user-friendly."
"The solution integrates well with most Microsoft products."
"The solution is highly reliable."
"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."
"I think installation only took a couple of minutes — no more than 10 minutes."
"The flexibility of its modules allow it to be scalable."
"Valuable features include authentication, caching, reverse proxy routing, and load balancing."
"The best solution, by far, for web traffic control for things in production and just around the house."
"It's lightweight software that can handle heavy loads efficiently."
"Its versatility and capabilities make it invaluable for implementing patches and fixes when necessary."
"Supports IMAP, POP and SMTP protocols for the reverse proxy."
"The solution is slow and could have better performance."
"Finding different settings can be difficult if you don't know where to look."
"The security must be improved."
"The user interface could be improved."
"It lacks a few performance improvement tools."
"The solution should improve the cluster environment and load balancing."
"The solution's black box is not fast."
"This solution needs to be easier for cases where you want to have an IIS cluster."
"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."
"NGINX Plus is moderately priced, but it could give better value for money."
"The scaling should be built into the software rather than configured from an outside source."
"They should do in the open source version of what they did to Advanced HTTP, TCP, and UDP load balancing."
"I would like it to have a more user-friendly graphical interface."
"The solution needs to be easier to setup and deploy."
"Our most challenging part was to run an older PHP website reverse-proxied through NGINX. That was not fun."
"The center management system could be improved."
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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