I use NGINX to port our local server to a public server where people can access the URL. The main use case is for reverse proxy to support our local server, making it publicly accessible through our DNS system.
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Enables public access and secure configurations through reverse proxy
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
The primary valuable feature of NGINX for me is its ability to provide a reverse proxy. I have found that this feature supports our local server, and I am able to connect through our DNS system, making it accessible publicly.
Additionally, the integration with SSL certificates and the configuration capabilities make it a valuable solution for my use case. Without NGINX, users would not be able to access our application, which means there is positive ROI from using NGINX as it is crucial for the functioning of my organization.
What needs improvement?
One area of improvement could be that NGINX could provide a means to generate self-signed SSL certificates. This would eliminate the need to use third-party software such as SaaS Boost for generating these certificates.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with NGINX for seven months.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
NGINX is very stable. In my use case, I require ninety-nine point nine percent uptime, and NGINX has been pivotal in helping me achieve this along with our other DNS services. I have not encountered any stability issues.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
While some people use NGINX for web servers, my current use case focuses on networking and tunneling, which does not necessitate much scaling. However, by adding more resources to our system, I can maintain and ensure everything runs smoothly.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Prior to NGINX, I didn't use any other similar solutions.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup of NGINX was straightforward and very easy. It was completed in about one hour.
What about the implementation team?
The entire deployment process required only one person.
What was our ROI?
Without NGINX, users would not be able to access our application, which means there is positive ROI from using NGINX as it is crucial for the functioning of my organization.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
My use case involves using the free and open-source version of NGINX, making it cost-effective as I haven't incurred any costs.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I did not evaluate other options because NGINX is popular in the tech world and was an easy choice for me.
What other advice do I have?
NGINX is a great product for anyone interested in reverse proxy. It is a reliable solution and has proven effective in my use case. I would recommend it to anyone considering similar needs.
The overall product rating is ten out of ten.
Using F5 Nginx Plus for load balancing and it is really a better option
What do you like best about the product?
The load balancing feature and the API Gateway
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing to mention about the dislike things
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Load balancing feature helps us to maintain the servers in high available always
Excels at being a reverse proxy
What is our primary use case?
I primarily use NGINX Plus as a reverse proxy, and it does an excellent job.
How has it helped my organization?
NGINX Plus is a crucial tool that helps me tackle various problems and challenges. Its versatility and capabilities make it invaluable for implementing patches and fixes when necessary.
What is most valuable?
NGINX Plus is incredibly valuable to me because it excels at being a reverse proxy, offering seamless failover, and it works perfectly for my needs.
What needs improvement?
Improvement needed in NGINX Plus could focus on optimizing memory usage for users.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using NGINX Plus for two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I would rate the stability a seven out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The product is very scalable. I would give it a ten out of ten for scalability.
How are customer service and support?
Technical support is very good. I have used it only once and it is great. I would rate it a ten out of ten.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is very easy.
What was our ROI?
I have definitely seen ROI with NGINX Plus.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I believe NGINX Plus offers very reasonable pricing for companies. Although I didn't buy it myself, companies that did found it to be affordable, especially with free versions available for specific needs.
What other advice do I have?
I would recommend NGINX Plus to others. It is a good product and it is very user-friendly. Overall, I would rate it a ten out of ten.
A solution that integrates well into your environment and gives you more options and power
What is our primary use case?
We are using servers as web servers, and I redirect them to NGINX.
How has it helped my organization?
When you use NGINX, you have more options and power. You don't need to use anything else. I have web servers that integrate with other web servers you need to use, for example, Apache, IIS, or anything else.
What is most valuable?
NGINX integrates well with your environment. It's better using NGINX than Apache.
What needs improvement?
The user interface could be improved. NGINX is also too poor with streaming. We could have a better solution for streaming besides NGINX.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been using NGINX Plus for about 20 years or more.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I rate the solution's stability a ten out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I rate the solution's scalability an eight out of ten.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is not difficult. You need to have some experience, of course. When installing the solution, you just edit some text files. It could be simpler if you have a user interface, but you must know how to edit a text file.
What was our ROI?
I have 100% seen a return on investment with NGINX Plus.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The solution is free, but you can spend a lot of money with a complex solution.
What other advice do I have?
I mainly use the cloud because it's for the Internet. But I have some cases where we need to use the solution internally or locally. But we mainly deploy the solution on the cloud.
Before choosing NGINX Plus, one should ask an expert to help them. I rate NGINX Plus a ten out of ten.
Lightweight software and easy to setup
What is our primary use case?
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.
What is most valuable?
It's lightweight software that can handle heavy loads efficiently.
What needs improvement?
There is room for improvement in the pricing model.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using this solution for three years.
How are customer service and support?
The customer service and support is fine.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is straightforward. It took about a week to deploy the solution.
What was our ROI?
There was an ROI. It's a very useful solution.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The licensing cost is yearly, and it can be quite expensive.
What other advice do I have?
Overall, I would rate the solution a ten out of ten.
If you're using a container environment, I would highly recommend it. It's usually a good fit in about 58% of cases.
Love F5 NGINX
What do you like best about the product?
I like the web server and load balancer best
What do you dislike about the product?
I can't think of any right now. I love everything.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's helping me solve the hassle to setup everything separately.
NGINX MANAGE
What do you like best about the product?
The Configuration part is the most liked. If we have a proper document to run this on Docker, that will be the most fruitful thing ever. And Auto Re-correction will be a good hook.
What do you dislike about the product?
If it recommends the security part, that will be more helpful. And also, if we have more information available, that would be the best part. If any templates containing a list of commands will be helpful.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Yes, absolutely.
Stable and High-performance load balancer
What do you like best about the product?
Enchanced Availablity, Speed and Responsiveness.
Good cloud native load balancer ingress solution along with API Gateway and load balancer features.
Super resilent, no bottle necks noticed.
Capable of scaling for many hosts and applications.
We can use the caching features and compressions along with load balance and reverse proxy soultions included in this product.
We can also benefit from different protocols such as SMTP, IMAP, POP.
Good cloud native load balancer ingress solution along with API Gateway and load balancer features.
Super resilent, no bottle necks noticed.
Capable of scaling for many hosts and applications.
We can use the caching features and compressions along with load balance and reverse proxy soultions included in this product.
We can also benefit from different protocols such as SMTP, IMAP, POP.
What do you dislike about the product?
Licensing model.
Metric dashborad is not great.
Latency and timeout should be improved.
Metric dashborad is not great.
Latency and timeout should be improved.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Great Cloud native reverse proxy, load balancing and API Gateway features included in single product. Eliminate the manintance and cost for having different components.
Kubernetes
What do you like best about the product?
Increase uptime
Simply operations
Release Apps faster
Simply operations
Release Apps faster
What do you dislike about the product?
I think it can improve more in incoprating with other software and tools
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Kubernetes problem and while releasing ITAH
Makes it much smoother
Makes it much smoother
F5 Nginx plus - Great Deployment tool
What do you like best about the product?
It is a deployment tool for easy deployment of web servers . it is very reliable,fast with expert level production capabilities. It has features like HA,load balancing and production grade health checking made this tool very unique in the market.
What do you dislike about the product?
It doesnt have larger community like apache , so when we have any issues in deployments we dont get much support is the only draw back as for now. I hope in future this will be resolved as the market of nginx is growing day by say.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The load balancer in this Nginx helps our project a lot in enrouting the traffic to available resources, that way we are maintaining our servers with out any down time. And this is the best part as far as i know.
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