We performed a comparison between Apache Web Server and NGINX Plus 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."Most of the features I liked were related to the performance during peak hours."
"It is more secure to use Apache and you will have fewer problems than other web services."
"The best thing about Apache is that it is open-source, so implementing my platform on-premises is less expansive than other solutions."
"The solution offers good security."
"Apache has proven to be incredibly reliable, and everything has operated smoothly without encountering any issues."
"The control panel is very easy to navigate. It's similar to most hosting platforms, so it's user-friendly. Once you get used to it, managing your hosting becomes easy, too."
"Its community is its most valuable feature. Solving problems is easier on Apache because so many people know this product."
"The product's initial setup phase is straightforward."
"Its versatility and capabilities make it invaluable for implementing patches and fixes when necessary."
"I find the solution’s community support and documentation most valuable. Compared to HAProxy, have found a lot of documentation and community support on Quora. If you would be asking me as a developer whether to choose this product, I would recommend this since it has good community support, documentation, and signature updates. The configuration of HAProxy is also very tedious. However, NGINX’s configuration is very simple."
"It's lightweight software that can handle heavy loads efficiently."
"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."
"It performs very well. That's one of the primary reasons we use NGINX."
"When I worked in a security research center, we tested NGINX to support DoS and DDoS attacks, and its results were great."
"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."
"Supports IMAP, POP and SMTP protocols for the reverse proxy."
"So far, for us, everything is okay."
"There is a security-related problem that depends on the web server's configuration."
"For NGINX, I think it has NGINX Management Suite, which is GUI-based and allows you to manage your configuration via the user interface, but Apache fails to offer such capabilities to users."
"The product's initial setup process could be easier for users."
"There isn't a dedicated customer support available"
"Adding a reverse proxy to Apache Web Server would be a significant improvement."
"By optimizing the infrastructure to allow the webserver to directly handle queries from memory—particularly by prioritizing the storage of queries in memory and processing them through the web server interface—I could potentially cut down the required instances from five hundred to two hundred."
"Lacks integration with some cloud solutions."
"NGINX Plus is moderately priced, but it could give better value for money."
"I would like the configuration process to be more simplified."
"The solution must improve its performance."
"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. "
"If NGINX brings some features for health check in the open source version, it would be better. "
"Only improvement needed that I would point to is scalability. With it, I mean clusterized organisation on a low level. At the moment, the best alternative is RHEL HA."
"I would suggest adding GUI-based configuration panels to NGINX Plus to simplify setup and management tasks."
"Our most challenging part was to run an older PHP website reverse-proxied through NGINX. That was not fun."
Apache Web Server is ranked 3rd in Application Infrastructure with 22 reviews while NGINX Plus is ranked 2nd in Application Infrastructure with 28 reviews. Apache Web Server is rated 8.6, while NGINX Plus is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Apache Web Server writes "Has good security, speed and traffic handling features ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". Apache Web Server is most compared with IIS, IBM WebSphere Application Server, Microsoft .NET Framework, Zend PHP Engine and IBM DataPower Gateway, whereas NGINX Plus is most compared with IIS, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Citrix NetScaler. See our Apache Web Server vs. NGINX Plus report.
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