NGINX Plus pros and cons

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Ritesh-Bakhru

Major Account Manager at Check Point Software

Jul 12, 2022

NGINX Plus also has NGINX App Protect. It's a separate module, which is inspired by the F5 apps.

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Muhammad Muaaz Bin Zaka

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

Jun 15, 2023

With NGINX, I appreciate its ability to route traffic geographically.

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Vijay Muddu

Manager server admin and security at Vivaconnect

Mar 4, 2024

Using NGINX Plus for web traffic distribution is fantastic. It offers performance similar to physical load balancers but with added flexibility.

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reviewer1573344

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

Jun 20, 2022

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.

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Andrii Stesin

Startup Founder at a tech services company

Jan 16, 2018

Nginx is extremely efficient in terms of the connection rate to the CPU cycles ratio, and in terms of the bandwidth to CPU cycles.

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reviewer1441791

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

Nov 8, 2020

I think installation only took a couple of minutes — no more than 10 minutes.

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Derrick Brockel

Senior Manager of Operations at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Dec 14, 2023

The product is resilient.

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reviewer1497894

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

Jun 28, 2022

The web proxy and the database proxy are excellent.

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AANKITGUPTAA

Consultant at Pi DATACENTERS

Oct 18, 2022

Supports IMAP, POP and SMTP protocols for the reverse proxy.

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Derek DeJonghe

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

Jan 21, 2018

Valuable features include authentication, caching, reverse proxy routing, and load balancing.

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Ritesh-Bakhru

Major Account Manager at Check Point Software

Jul 12, 2022

NGINX is a very basic load balancer and cannot do as many customizations as F5.

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Muhammad Muaaz Bin Zaka

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

Jun 15, 2023

Lack of a feature to print data on the terminal for verification of network traffic during debugging and testing.

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Vijay Muddu

Manager server admin and security at Vivaconnect

Mar 4, 2024

I would suggest adding GUI-based configuration panels to NGINX Plus to simplify setup and management tasks.

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reviewer1573344

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

Jun 20, 2022

The drawback is that you must obtain a license for everything.

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reviewer1441791

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

Nov 8, 2020

The scaling should be built into the software rather than configured from an outside source.

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Derrick Brockel

Senior Manager of Operations at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Dec 14, 2023

The solution must improve its performance.

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Darren Whitfield

CTO at a tech vendor

Apr 22, 2018

Our most challenging part was to run an older PHP website reverse-proxied through NGINX. That was not fun.

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reviewer1497894

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

Jun 28, 2022

It would be great if there was even more automation to make it even easier to maintain.

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AANKITGUPTAA

Consultant at Pi DATACENTERS

Oct 18, 2022

The KPI should be more focused on load balancing and the latency in application calling from the end system.

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Derek DeJonghe

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

Jan 21, 2018

The biggest room for improvement would be to allow NGINX Core machines to cluster for memory zones in some way with a plug and play module.

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Product Categories

Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)

Application Infrastructure

Popular Comparisons

Microsoft Azure Application Gateway vs NGINX Plus

Linode vs NGINX Plus

F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) vs NGINX Plus

IBM BPM vs NGINX Plus

HAProxy vs NGINX Plus

IBM DataPower Gateway vs NGINX Plus

Mule ESB vs NGINX Plus

IIS vs NGINX Plus

Citrix NetScaler vs NGINX Plus

IBM WebSphere Application Server vs NGINX Plus

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