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[Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated September 29th, 2026 # Reviews of NGINX Ease of use 4.3 Customer Service 4.4 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 1-19 of 19 available reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use R Reviewer Developer Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "The best for web servers" April 3, 2018 5.0 Pros Excellent tool, to combine it with virtualized servers with virtual box. My team and I specialized in ubuntu server and nginx virtualized servers to create our development and testing environments. It is comfortable and easy to work with, its handling of clean URLs is very easy. Cons It is a very complete and robust tool that from time to time is difficult to learn for those who have little experience in configuring web servers, but once learned a developer will not want to change it. Review Source R Reviewer Engineering Manager Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "De-facto standard for web server/reverse proxy today" March 17, 2025 5.0 Positive experience - very stable, customisable, high performance. Pros De facto industry standard for a web server/reverse proxy. Rock solid reliability! Cons Very minor issue but it is Linux based. May be a learning curve depending on the skills of the team. Review Source Verified Reviewer Lead Backend Engineer Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Nginx (free) > Nginx PLUS" November 1, 2018 3.0 Pros The only pro I can pull out of PLUS is their stats dashboard and the fact you pay and get support. Cons I find the free version of Nginx is much better and has all the same modules available, minus the support (which you can find most issues for free on the internet, probably) Review Source William M. Software Engineer Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "A Great server for modern applications" November 22, 2022 5.0 A Great Server for Modern applications, I was surprised at what it could handle. Pros I loved the fact that I could use with Node.js, React.js and other modern libraries/frameworks. Cons The learning curve is a bit steep, but once you get going it's very user friendly. Review Source R Reviewer Infrastructure Principal Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "Best in-class web server and proxy" July 10, 2023 5.0 Pros Nginx Plus stands out for its exceptional performance and scalability, efficient SSL offload capabilities, flexible content routing for optimized resource allocation, and support for a wide range of predefined protocols, making it a valuable choice for enhancing web application delivery, security, and flexibility.The dashboards and the API are great as wekk. Cons Considering the nature of the product and the alternatives, I can't find any negative. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer web developer Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "NGINX Plus is A Versatile and Powerful Solution for Load Balancing and Traffic Management" March 7, 2023 5.0 NGINX Plus is a highly capable and reliable web server and reverses proxy that provides many benefits for web developers and system administrators. It's fast and highly performant. Pros NGINX Plus provides a range of security features, such as SSL/TLS encryption and authentication, that can help organizations protect their web applications from attacks and vulnerabilities. Cons There is little to dislike about NGINX, except for its platform latency. Review Source R Reviewer Developer / system admin Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "I dunno, it just has that 'something'." September 19, 2017 4.0 Something about Nginx feels qualitatively 'better' than Apache. I know that's subjective, but that sort of thing matters when you have to manage a flotilla of Nginx instances in your daily work. The configuration files just make sense to me in a way that Apache config files never did. The config language is very expressive and lean. It's a versatile server; you can use it as an application proxy, a reverse caching proxy, a forward proxy, and of course a plain ol' web server. (Disclaimer: I've only ever used the open source Nginx, but the commercial version has some very compelling features that I know I've wished I could use.) Pros Simple configuration, lots of features, speed, and reverse proxying. Most important, it just 'feels better' than alternatives. Cons Support for meta-config could be better: when sharing templates among vhosts, the limitations of how you can use variables are a surprise. Review Source R Reviewer Programmer/Analyst Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "NGINX Plus - Excellent LoadBalancer" October 12, 2020 5.0 The option to loadbalance processes of all different kinds makes NGINX+ a valuable tool for us. Pros NGINX+ works great both if you want to loadbalance incoming Ecommerce orders across multiple Ecommerce server instances or want to load balance ERP user sessions for all your users scattered around the country. Cons Disabling and enabling instances can get a bit tedious. Would be great to save disable or enable tasks fir repetitive uses. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Software Engineer Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "NGINX Plus gets the job done" January 20, 2022 5.0 Pros Nginx is one of the fastest web servers out there, easy to configure and manage. Nginx Plus REST API plus healthcheck APIs makes everything easier Cons Nothing so far in my opinion. I love it Review Source R Reviewer Líder Técnico Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "Balanceo de carga con NGINX Plus" September 19, 2022 5.0 Estoy trabajando con NGINX Plus para balancear varias aplicaciones, cada una de ellas con distintos protocolos, desde HTTP, hasta SNMP, y al conocer como configurar un protocolo, hacerlo con los demás es más sencillo, pues el procedimiento es similar. Pros La forma de implementar es muy sencilla, con configurar un par de archivos, ya puedes estar balanceando el protocolo HTTP, con distintos esquemas de balanceo, dependiendo de las necesidades que se tienen, además que esta versión ya te permite tener en esquema de alta disponibilidad al NGINX Plus, y se sincroniza en automático. Cons En el caso de usar como proxy el NGINX, se requiere de más ejemplos de cómo configurar el protocolo HTTPS, como usar los certificados y también los tokens, hay muchos escenarios que requieren de parámetros específicos y considero que los ejemplos es la mejor forma de aprender cómo hacerlo. Review Source R Reviewer IT Manager Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "great web engine for multiples purposes." August 10, 2018 4.0 Great stability and security. Pros The easy install and the flexibility of the configuration styles, is one of the most secure engine at the marked. Cons it would be nice to have a more optional modules already integrate at the default installer,for example like another flavor of installer, at least with the most used modules. Review Source Jeffrey M. Software security analyst Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "mobile API gateways done right" July 24, 2018 5.0 Pros ease of use of Api implemented in Restful service. From c# code to exposed services i can use android studio (java) and make use of the endpoints. Load balancing is also sorted via nginx. Nginx is an already with security as well as api cannot be sniffed over the network. Theyre excrypted. deploying an app to our UAT/Beta environment replicates a real world scenario. Cons There is a huge learning curve when you have to intregrate into another layer but once set up it is easy to re-use. Every new person that has come onto the team has struggled to set up but internal documentation has been created to set up internally for Android SDK. Review Source R Reviewer CEO and Principal IT Security Consultant Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "A great option to create scalable applications" August 20, 2018 4.0 Pros The fact that it is build on top of Nginx is already a big plus, however even better is the fact that Nginx Plus supports session persistent and can help you to improve the user experience. Cons At first, it may be quite challenging to understand how all the pieces fit together. Review Source Verified Reviewer Data Analytics Manager Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "Reliable web server and reverse proxy" June 13, 2022 4.0 We use Nginx Plus as a reverse proxy for lots of internal tools we deploy, among other use cases. It's been very reliable. Overall, we've had a very productive experience using it. Pros I like how reliable Nginx Plus is. We use it mostly as a reverse proxy. It's very fast and efficient. Cons I don't have anything I dislike about Nginx Plus. Review Source Verified Reviewer Sysadmin Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "Great LB/WAF stack for Nginx" January 9, 2019 5.0 Pros It has a lot of great features built in, and made to work with existing Nginx installations Cons While Nginx is free, Nginx plus is not. There are other FOSS alternatives available. Review Source R Reviewer Programmer Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "Better than Nginx" September 11, 2020 5.0 NGINX Plus has been an overall pleasant experience. The feature I use most is the healthchecks for services. Pros I really enjoy that NGINX Plus improves upon already existing open-source solution NGINX. It's all the features of the open-source version, plus more. It acts as a very good load balancer, caching solution, and as a monitor. Cons Unfortunately, the NGINX Plus can be extremely expensive, ranging in the thousands of dollars. If this sounds too expensive for you, using simply NGINX is probably a better plan. Review Source R Reviewer Software Engineer Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "Review for NGINX Plus" April 7, 2022 4.0 The software have a great customer support. Pros Cloud native, easy to use reverse proxy. Cons Time to deploy the server is relatively short, but some settings are confused for starters. Review Source R Reviewer Co-Founder Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "Reliable and secure web server" April 11, 2018 5.0 Great performance, reliability, and security at a great price. Pros nginx has been rock solid and a stellar performer. I moved to nginx from apache (which worked fine) and prefer the configuration syntax as well. Cons It can have a learning curve and there's less support available as compared to other industry leaders likes Apache and IIS. Review Source Nigel M R. WordPress Developer Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "Best feature is load balancing" December 14, 2020 4.0 Pros The load balancing is easy for non-technical users to understand and set up. Cons Depending on the server setup, the premium Nginx plus features like load balancing may not be necessary. For example, if you have online one site on a server. Review Source Similar Products Featured