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.
"It is a lightweight web host that is easy to configure for simple webpages."
"The product is stable."
"The product is scalable."
"The product is easy to use."
"IIS is stable."
"It helps scan and mitigates our vulnerabilities using the best protocols to secure our environment."
"The graphical user interface makes it easy for users to configure the sites."
"The solution is very easy to use and offers a quick deployment."
"The product is resilient."
"Nginx is extremely efficient in terms of the connection rate to the CPU cycles ratio, and in terms of the bandwidth to CPU cycles."
"I find the solution’s community support and documentation most valuable. Compared to HAProxy, have found a lot of documentation and community support on Quora. If you would be asking me as a developer whether to choose this product, I would recommend this since it has good community support, documentation, and signature updates. The configuration of HAProxy is also very tedious. However, NGINX’s configuration is very simple."
"It performs very well. That's one of the primary reasons we use NGINX."
"Zero Downtime has always been a strength in recommending infrastructure web services. NGINX allows me to execute such infrastructure with less complications and the ability to switch from server to server easily."
"NGINX works much better than HAProxy in our current hardware and architecture for HTTP/HTTPS load balancing. "
"I need to highlight that the number one thing about NGINX is that it is free."
"The load balancing module, which is equivalent to LTM, is the focus of the PSE. So far, the features of both are identical. I believe NGINX has more features for securing these services, but in terms of load balancing, both are massive solutions."
"In the next release, I would like to see better integration between the cloud environment and the on-premises environment."
"The solution's stability needs improvement."
"The cost is a bit too high."
"We've never had any issues with the solution, but it's still nice to have overall improvements on it. It could be easier and faster to use, for example."
"This solution needs to be easier for cases where you want to have an IIS cluster."
"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."
"There is an issue with the network. The tool's price is also high."
"The solution must improve the integration between its databases."
"The solution must improve its performance."
"I would like it to have a more user-friendly graphical interface."
"Our most challenging part was to run an older PHP website reverse-proxied through NGINX. That was not fun."
"Make modules easier to enable or disable. The beauty and ugly side of the NGINX modules is you have to know how to compile the module. For beginners or non-very technical aspirant(s) going for NGINX, they have to learn how to compile the modules."
"The scaling should be built into the software rather than configured from an outside source."
"I would like the configuration process to be more simplified."
"I would suggest adding GUI-based configuration panels to NGINX Plus to simplify setup and management tasks."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model."
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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