We compared IIS and NGINX Plus based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
IIS and NGINX Plus both offer robust performance and excellent customer support, with IIS focusing on seamless integration with Microsoft products and extensive security measures, while NGINX Plus stands out for scalability and load balancing capabilities. IIS is praised for its user-friendly interface and pricing transparency, whereas NGINX Plus receives positive feedback for its performance optimization and flexible pricing. Areas for improvement include enhancing performance, increasing reliability, addressing security concerns, and improving user interface for IIS, while NGINX Plus users seek more advanced features in load balancing, better documentation, improved integration, and expanded protocol support. Overall, both products have positive returns on investment, with users expressing satisfaction with their benefits and value.
Features: The valuable features of IIS include robust performance, seamless integration with other Microsoft products, extensive security measures, a user-friendly interface, and outstanding support. In comparison, NGINX Plus offers scalability, efficient handling of high traffic loads, robust load balancing, advanced caching, seamless integration with applications and tools, performance optimization, reliable session persistence, and comprehensive monitoring capabilities.
Pricing and ROI: The setup cost for IIS is mentioned to be straightforward with no additional expenses. On the other hand, NGINX Plus is regarded as both reasonable and straightforward in terms of setup cost. Users find the pricing and licensing structure of both products to be reasonable and transparent., The ROI from IIS implementation has been highly positive and beneficial based on user feedback. Users also reported positive returns on investment with NGINX Plus, expressing satisfaction with its benefits and value.
Room for Improvement: IIS has room for improvement in performance, reliability, security, user interface, compatibility, and documentation. In comparison, users believe NGINX Plus could benefit from advanced load balancing features, improved documentation, better integration, and expanded protocol support.
Deployment and customer support: The reviews for IIS suggest that the duration required for establishing a new tech solution can range from one week to three months, with varying timeframes for deployment and setup. In contrast, the reviews for NGINX Plus indicate that the duration can vary from several months to a week, with separate timeframes for deployment and setup. The reviews highlight that the time required for establishing the tech solution using NGINX Plus can vary based on individual needs and circumstances., IIS's customer service is highly praised for their helpfulness, responsiveness, and expertise in addressing technical issues. They provide prompt assistance, clear guidance, practical solutions, and are willing to go the extra mile. NGINX Plus also receives positive feedback for their customer service. Users appreciate the prompt and effective assistance, knowledgeable support team, thorough explanations, and excellent customer service experience. They feel valued and supported throughout their interactions.
The summary above is based on 48 interviews we conducted recently with IIS and NGINX Plus users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"The product is easy to use."
"All the features of Microsoft IIS are valuable."
"It's good and offers good usability."
"The initial setup of IIS is easy. The process takes only five minutes."
"IIS has a very simple and user-friendly interface, which helps a lot in effective and efficient management."
"We use Windows Server only for Eggplant Manager."
"The solution is easy to use, easy to maintain and isn't too technical."
"When you are working with Microsoft solutions, you will see that the integration with the operating system, and implementing some security features, are easier in IIS than when using another solution."
"I think installation only took a couple of minutes — no more than 10 minutes."
"The web proxy and the database proxy are excellent."
"Application Gateway with application-level firewall tool and load distributor and balancer (also serves for A/B testing)."
"Its most valuable features are load balancing and application delivery. This is the most efficient application for these features because of stability and its efficiency."
"Supports IMAP, POP and SMTP protocols for the reverse proxy."
"Valuable features include authentication, caching, reverse proxy routing, and load balancing."
"This solution has everything."
"The product is lightweight and fast."
"IIS's memory management could be improved."
"It lacks a few performance improvement tools."
"The user interface could be improved."
"In the next release, the tool should be more easily integrated and configured with other provisions. The pricing should also be made cheaper since it's very expensive now."
"The initial setup could be made easier."
"If Microsoft IIS could work well with AppOptics or things like PHP, Python, and other custom languages that run on the webserver, it would be ideal. I think there are cases where people need to use Apache instead of IIS when IIS doesn't work well with other web languages."
"The cost is a bit too high."
"IIS could improve by Microsoft Windows improving the update services. We would like to be able to update all systems that are connected. The WSA service has to be in good order to accomplish this."
"NGINX Plus is moderately priced, but it could give better value for money."
"The KPI should be more focused on load balancing and the latency in application calling from the end system."
"It would be great if there was even more automation to make it even easier to maintain."
"Lack of a feature to print data on the terminal for verification of network traffic during debugging and testing."
"Our most challenging part was to run an older PHP website reverse-proxied through NGINX. That was not fun."
"The scaling should be built into the software rather than configured from an outside source."
"The solution's GUI is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"NGINX is a very basic load balancer and cannot do as many customizations as F5."
IIS is ranked 1st in Application Infrastructure with 53 reviews while NGINX Plus is ranked 2nd in Application Infrastructure with 28 reviews. IIS is rated 8.0, while NGINX Plus is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of IIS writes " A simple and easy-to-use solution but not recommended for public apps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". IIS is most compared with Apache Web Server, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tomcat, JBoss and Microsoft .NET Framework, whereas NGINX Plus is most compared with HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Apache Web Server and Citrix NetScaler. See our IIS vs. NGINX Plus report.
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