NGINX Plus Reviews

Vendor: F5

4.4 out of 5

28 reviews
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What is NGINX Plus?

NGINX Plus is a versatile solution that offers load balancing, caching, proxying, and API deployment capabilities. It can be deployed on private or public clouds and is ideal for building CDN solutions. The solution can also be used to secure web applications and replace web services like Apache.

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NGINX Plus is the #2 ranked solution in top Application Infrastructure solutions and #5 ranked solution in top Application Delivery Controllers. PeerSpot users give NGINX Plus an average rating of 8.8 out of 10. NGINX Plus is most commonly compared to Microsoft Azure Application Gateway: NGINX Plus vs Microsoft Azure Application Gateway. NGINX Plus is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 61% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 18% of all views.

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Ritesh-Bakhru

Major Account Manager at Check Point Software

NGINX cannot be a replacement for your traditional load balancer with what we use in the network today. However, with applications going toward microservices, NGINX is definitely a way forward. F5 has many traditional load balancing features, so they still need to bring some of those features to NGINX. NGINX is a very basic load balancer and cannot do as many customizations as F5. I think F5 is trying to implement those features in NGINX so they can improve the balancing on NGINX, but I think that will take some time. With the traditional F5 set up, the same OS can do load balancing, firewalls, and even policy enforcement. If we are able to bring some of those capabilities to NGINX, I think it would become a versatile solution and usage would definitely increase.

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Derrick Brockel

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

Support and troubleshooting could be a challenge. For each layer we go through, we need to get an SME. If it is F5, we need a person from F5. Then, if we get into NGINX, we need someone from NGINX. Sometimes, it can be the same person. Since it is another solution on a stack, it can be challenging. F5 has good support. It’s been pretty good.

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M.Umar Farooq

Senior Devops Engineer at Nisum

NGINX can also be used for load balancing, which makes it better than Apache in a lot of cases. Additionally, it functions as both a reverse proxy and a web server, offering a lot of flexibility. Moreover, it performs very well. That's one of the primary reasons we use NGINX.

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NGINX Plus mindshare

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As of November 2024, the mindshare of NGINX Plus in the Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) category stands at 8.5%, down from 9.4% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

"It performs very well. That's one of the primary reasons we use NGINX."
"Using NGINX Plus for web traffic distribution is fantastic. It offers performance similar to physical load balancers but with added flexibility."
"The product is resilient."

Room for Improvement

"I would like the configuration process to be more simplified."
"I would suggest adding GUI-based configuration panels to NGINX Plus to simplify setup and management tasks."
"The solution must improve its performance."

Pricing

"There's an open-source version of NGINX that is free."
"The cost is reasonable."
"NGINX Plus is an open-source solution with limited additional features. When you try to get additional features in the solution, then you need to pay an extra amount to NGINX Plus."

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Learn more about NGINX Plus

NGINX has helped organizations improve functioning, reduce downtimes, and offer a DevOps-friendly solution. Its community support and documentation are highly regarded, and its configuration is more straightforward, making it a recommended choice over HAProxy.

NGINX Plus was previously known as NGINX.