NGINX Plus

I like its simple, scriptable configurations for a fast web server. It provides an awesome solution for application delivery controllers, WebSocket negotiation, SSL termination, caching, etc. and it also excels at proxying. Nginx also provides good balancing strategies for managing standard application delivery. Its plugins is also a huge plus in the application.

Nginx’s documentation is not that pretty compared to other projects which can be quite challenging sometimes. It was also engineered to work at its best in linux kernel so, the Windows version may not give an equal performance you can get on linux systems. I hope, they will work on this soon.

I especially use it for proxying some web applications to give them consistent SSL support to micro services or web applications which doesn’t support themselves. It also helps me understand my web server configuration files better and easier. It is also a great advantage to Apache and its learning curve is much more kind compared to others.

Nginx is an open source software and the Nginx Plus is a slippery way from the open source mentality. Nginx plus is a popular application delivery system that encapsulates Load Balancer which has very good performance in managing the availability of applications, services, and APIs. Nginx Plus is available for Google Cloud Platform, Azure and for AWS.

Training modules and sessions both online or in-person are priced separately. The Nginx was used to be a free and open source and with the introduction of Nginx Plus, there is no place of a free usable plan. Otherwise, there is nothing to complain about the functionalities and performance of Nginx plus since it is successfully deployed and used by large corporations.

Nginx Plus supports many Linux distribution including Oracle Linux, Debian, red Hat, Suse and more. Nginx load balancing features TCP and UDP traffic, HTTP, HTTPS, FastCGI etc. The capabilities are large of Nginx Plus and it allows modules under the extras package like GeoIP, Redis, Image-Filter and more. Nginx is providing enormous content of learning material at additional costs within their virtual university

It has top line customer support and updates from the team behind the application. It has powerful features like the high performance web server, the highly scalable accelerating cache and a great front end load balancer to provide a rich platform for running all your web applications.

It is costly purchasing this product for small sized companies, because it is sold in instances per year. Getting even the price of the pro version is not easy unless one speaks to the sales team. It also has a fairly complex installation process that has codes that are specific to an OS environment.

Powering over 100 million properties, NGINX is the most popular open source web server and load balancer for top notch high traffic websites. It has great features that provides the user great monitoring and off the charts management for its users with detailed logging and performance health checks.