NGINX Plus Primary Use Case

Ritesh-Bakhru - PeerSpot reviewer
Major Account Manager at Check Point Software

I am a reseller. A lot of customers use this solution on cloud and on-premises. Typically, people use NGINX to build their own CDN solutions, so it often goes into CDN deployments. Most apps have NGINX OSS as the underlying base, whether they're cloud apps or on-premises apps. NGINX is the free version of NGINX Plus.

F5 is now creating buzz in the market because if you migrate to NGINX Plus, you'll get a 30 minute response time from F5 or the NGINX team if you have any challenges with the solution, so that's an advantage. 

NGINX Plus can give you multiple features from a load balancing perspective. The standard NGINX OSS doesn't have that.

There are about 400 million websites that run NGINX OSS. Since NGINX was an open source company until F5 acquired it in 2019, NGINX doesn't have a lot of paid products. In the last year and a half, the F5 and NGINX teams have started doing the sales pitch for people to upgrade to the paid version, like Red Hat, which has an open source version and a paid version. We're seeing good uptake, but I don't think they have been able to cover more than 10% of the user base.

For most of the companies I have interacted with, 90% of them are using NGINX because it's a favorite open source solution. People are now using NGINX Plus because F5 just started selling it in the last year and a half. Out of the 90% who are using it, there are about 10-15% who are using the paid version.

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Derrick Brockel - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager of Operations at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

We use the solution for application transactions. It is used for our corporate business and customer-facing applications.

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RICARDO FILIPO - PeerSpot reviewer
Wordpress Expert at Codeable

We are using servers as web servers, and I redirect them to NGINX.

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Saurav Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior security architecture at National Payment Corporation Of India

We have two to three use cases for the solution. The first use case is for our organization’s Base Server that is hosting the applications. The second is the load balancing and reverse proxy. The third use case is NGINX App Protect which we are using right now.

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AH
Team leader at Dana energy

NGINX can be used for publishing services or as a replacement solution for web services, like Apache, and it can get updates from servers.

We had a lot of attacks in the network, and most of them were based on Apache. About three years ago, we decided to go for a new solution.

There are about 2,500 users in my company. Our company is an international company, and we're growing. We're going to hire 500 people in the next six months.

It can be deployed on a private or public cloud.

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EL
Owner at Els

I primarily use NGINX Plus as a reverse proxy, and it does an excellent job. 

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Nguyen Kien - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees

I use NGINX for load balancing, and I use the solution's Reverse Proxy to get different domains and certificates into our server.

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MB
Software Engineer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

So it's primarily for testing purposes.

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Vijay Muddu - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager server admin and security at Vivaconnect

I find NGINX Plus incredibly versatile. It is my go-to for serving web content efficiently, balancing loads across servers, and securely managing traffic as a reverse proxy. Plus, it is fantastic for streaming ports like SMTP and handling non-SAP protocol traffic.

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AANKITGUPTAA - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at Pi DATACENTERS

The load balancer which is based on NGINX is used to protect our servers. The product works as a reverse proxy and we use some modes and smart security modules of NGINX for securing the web application as a web module.

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YS
Technological architect - IT infrastructure at a government with 10,001+ employees

We primarily use the solution as a proxy in communities. We’ve got some latencies in the database connection and some connection drops, so we use the proxy to make the database relevant. We use it for all the websites, the APIs, et cetera.

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FS
Support Operation at dafnek it solutions

Proxy and load balance are the reasons why I use NGINX Plus. I use NGINX Plus to help me with a delivery app on the cloud for one of my company's customers.

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KO
Network Engineer at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are just copying some of what is on the F5 to the NGINX and seeing how it behaves. We will start with the streaming servers.

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Nikolay Dimitrov - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber Security Engineer at Paysafe / IBM

We use this solution for caching. We are customers of NGINX.

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MahesaPutra - PeerSpot reviewer
Presales at Efficient IT Systems Ltd

NGINX Plus is a part of F5 and can be useful for customers with containers and terminals. Moreover, it's useful for businesses that need application delivery control and enterprise load balancing.

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RI
DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I use the solution as a reverse proxy. 

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DW
CTO at a tech vendor

We build all our websites (of which we have multiple, from production sites to development environments), through webpack, so we use NGINX to quickly host them, while easily binding to the relevant (sub)domains. Our entire service stack runs on Linux. Our most challenging part was to run an older PHP website reverse-proxied through NGINX. That was not fun.

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FA
CTO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I use it for eCommerce web servers and to reverse proxy in a different cases. I also use it for high availability, load balancing, and failover.

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Abdelmeguid  Hamdy - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Director at Cascade Solutions

NGINX Plus is mainly used as an ingress controller and for API deployment and web servers.

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AS
Startup Founder at a tech services company

In my architecture (which is a microservice architecture with some special advances), NGINX serves multiple purposes. Namely:

  • Application Gateway with an application-level firewall tool and load distributor & balancer (also serves for A/B testing).
  • Rate limiter and bandwidth limiter (session-based).
  • Source of real-time logs, consumed by intrusion detection system.
  • "Circuit breaker" for the whole complex of microservices.

No other tool can compare to it.

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DD
Director of Architecture at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

By far the best solution for web traffic control - in production and just around the house.

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FP
Devops Specialist And Infrastructure Leader at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We use NGINX 1.12.x free version as reverse proxy to Java application servers (WildFly and Tomcat) on single instances, and use it as a load-balancer for our two Keycloak single sign-on instances too. We use AWS EC2 instances here.

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DK
Head Of Technology at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We use NGINX as solution for load balancing our cluster production.

Currently, we don't have any plans to increase the usage because each license costs around $2000 - $2500. 

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DG
Linux System Administrator at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

I am using the NGINX web server as my web server, especially to run PHP applications and Python. The main reason that I am using NGINX in these environments is micro caching. NGINX is a lightweight web server. 

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JG
Linux System Administrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

NGINX has been primarily used as a web server, which is also used as a load balancer. The robust software architecture allows for it to be scalable and very stable.

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it_user860769 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Team Leader at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

We are using NGINX to provide a reverse proxy in an environment of web services.

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