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What is F5 NGINX Plus?

NGINX Plus is the all-in-one load balancer, reverse proxy, web server, content cache, and API gateway.

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F5 NGINX Plus is a software load balancer, web server, and content cache built on top of open source NGINX. NGINX Plus has exclusive enterprise‑grade features beyond what's available in the open source offering, including session persistence, configuration via API, and active health checks. Use NGINX Plus instead of your hardware load balancer and get the freedom to innovate without being constrained by infrastructure.


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F5 is a multi-cloud application services and security company committed to bringing a better digital world to life. F5 partners with the world’s largest, most advanced organizations to optimize and secure every app and API anywhere, including on-premises, in the cloud, or at the edge. F5 enables organizations to provide exceptional, secure digital experiences for their customers and continuously stay ahead of threats. For more information, go to f5.com.


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"Using F5 Nginx Plus for load balancing and it is really a better option"
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"F5 NGINX Plus - Modern Application Platform!"
F5 NGINX Plus is one of the best API monitoring and security enhancing platforms that simplifies the process of modernizing legacy, monolithic appl...
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Praveen M.
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Cloud Support Engineer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about F5 NGINX Plus?

The load balancing feature and the API Gateway Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Plus?

Nothing to mention about the dislike things Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is F5 NGINX Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?

Load balancing feature helps us to maintain the servers in high available always Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Manya V.
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What do you like best about F5 NGINX Plus?

F5 NGINX Plus is one of the best API monitoring and security enhancing platforms that simplifies the process of modernizing legacy, monolithic applications as well as delivering agile, micro-services applications to enterprises undergoing digital transformation. With API Gateway and load balancer features, this is a robust cloud-native load balancer ingress solution that is super resilient, scalable, and dynamic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Plus?

There's not a lot to dislike about NGINX except the platform latency, slow support service, and a bit difficult to understand UI. Apart from this, the tool is great and really profitable for businesses seeking quick API deployments! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is F5 NGINX Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?

The platform introduced many benefits for our business such as reduced complexity, flexibility in API management, easy-to-set up and better integration, intuitive dashboard, and real-time monitoring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Deepak R.
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What do you like best about F5 NGINX Plus?

Right now, I don't use it as per business requirements but i have used this an year ago. However,

I use nodejs and nginx docs are quite easy to implement It in my application. I have integrated nginx for load balancing and reverse proxying the requests as nodejs is not capable to do it alone and the plus version is out of the box efficient web accelerator with good engineer support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Plus?

You will not be able to it in open-source environment and people when hear it about NGINX plus feature online they sometime mislead to free version. Also, the plus version for Indian businesses is quite expensive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is F5 NGINX Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?

There are lots of feature offered by nginx and I would like to qoute a specific case where I loved nginx so much i.e. from the above pros, I do not have to worry about the user load at all and my nodejs website was accelerated with plus version which had lots of performance issue at the time application was in UAT environment. Nginx will handle it for you in very easy efficient way. Also, there are lots of other features include related to load balancing and proxy, api gateways Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about F5 NGINX Plus?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Plus?

Licensing model.

Metric dashborad is not great.

Latency and timeout should be improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is F5 NGINX Plus 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pravin W.
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What do you like best about F5 NGINX Plus?

The best thing is you can deploy ngix service very easily on any platform. Since docker image is also available for nginx, its much easier when you are looking micro service application load balancing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Plus?

The content is not presice I guess. The video content is also very limited if you for looking for any specific thing about Nginx plus. More video content and reliable doc would be great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is F5 NGINX Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?

For me earlier platform dependency was issue when deploying a Nginx server on different platform. Nw Nginx plus solve this issue by creating the Nginx plus docker image. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mohammad S.
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What do you like best about F5 NGINX Plus?

Opensource to many platforms like Netflix and Dropbox which have a high volume of traffic. It balances the load nicely for delivering static & dynamic content in a fast manner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Plus?

Current Trial is for 30 days for NGINX Plus and should have been atleast for 90 days for the platform to understand how would be the ROI if it is puchased. Apart from that, Nothing else to dislike Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is F5 NGINX Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?

Since it is considered more reliable & secure than Apache. Most of the content delivery platforms use it. It reduces the data consumption of the end users, making it cost-effective. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about F5 NGINX Plus?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Plus?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is F5 NGINX Plus 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nanda Gopal P.
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What do you like best about F5 NGINX Plus?

The versatility and the range of solutions nginx provides is the best part. load balancer, reverse proxy etc everything that is needed to host a API platform is what makes this best. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Plus?

So far don't see a concern. But for most use cases the free version is enough. So pricing may be a concern if we consider the additional plus benefits. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is F5 NGINX Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Nginx as a reverse proxy and a load balancer for our applications mostly and to server some static contents as well. The best thing is the dashboard which gives a lot of information in the UI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mahammad K.
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What do you like best about F5 NGINX Plus?

The Configuration part is likemost. If we have proper document to run this on docker that will ne more fruitful things ever. And Auto Re correction will be good hook. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Plus?

If it's recommends the security part . That will be more helpful.

And also If we have more information available that'd will be the best part. If any templates containing list of commands will.be help Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is F5 NGINX Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?

Yeah absolutely. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amit R.
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What do you like best about F5 NGINX Plus?

I loved how F5 NGNIX Plus have integrated security, performance and insights with the platform. It made the platform more robust and to operate on different applications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 NGINX Plus?

In my earlier use I don't have much issues to tell. The overall experience was quite satisfactory Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is F5 NGINX Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?

They have got great support for debugging and troubleshooting of the problems on installing or working with my application which made it unique Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.