We performed a comparison between NGINX Plus and Zend PHP Engine based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Infrastructure solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product is lightweight and fast."
"The web proxy and the database proxy are excellent."
"With NGINX, I appreciate its ability to route traffic geographically."
"Valuable features include authentication, caching, reverse proxy routing, and load balancing."
"The robust software architecture allows for it to be scalable and very stable."
"The product is resilient."
"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."
"When I worked in a security research center, we tested NGINX to support DoS and DDoS attacks, and its results were great."
"We have not encountered issues with scalability as long as we effectively use caching to optimize performance of our web applications as well as a proper use of database connectivity."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the speed at which it compiles and sends the dynamic cache."
"The Zend Framework provides an easy, open source way to produce coding based on the needs of our customers."
"The fact that it is available open-source is the best feature."
"Zend PHP Engine is more secure than any other framework, and I usually prefer Zend PHP Engine for big applications."
"Faster web app implementation, when PHP dev is required by customers."
"It offers good support for various types of classes, along with many open source libraries that we can readily utilize in our application development process. This gives us a lot of options when it comes to custom development solutions, without having to worry about licensing or other programming-related issues."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"The biggest room for improvement would be to allow NGINX Core machines to cluster for memory zones in some way with a plug and play module. "
"I would like to see the Grafana integration in NGINX which is already present in HAProxy. Grafana integration will help the solution visualize all the data analytics on the dashboard which is currently not present."
"I would like it to have a more user-friendly graphical interface."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model."
"It would be good if NGINX provided a graphical user interface."
"Our most challenging part was to run an older PHP website reverse-proxied through NGINX. That was not fun."
"Lack of a feature to print data on the terminal for verification of network traffic during debugging and testing."
"The solution needs to be easier to setup and deploy."
"SQL queries have always been an issue with PHP, especially if you use large tables, which require caution from the side of the developer."
"Zend PHP Engine needs to improve the loading time of its libraries and make it faster."
"The solution can be quicker."
"Although it offers a complete environment to develop and deploy PHP applications, it has some limitations. For example, when the volume of data increased exponentially, I had problems scaling the system."
"Integration of MVC with ORM tools for PHP is okay, but lacking a short list of decent ORM tools for PHP to choose from; there is ample room for improvement in both areas."
"The main area that Zend needs to improve is to support asynchronous programming tasks, which is facilitated in PHP 7, but not at the same degree as HHVM."
"The process of installing and configuring the product is a bit complex and could be improved."
"Its object oriented programming language needs improvement."
NGINX Plus is ranked 2nd in Application Infrastructure with 27 reviews while Zend PHP Engine is ranked 12th in Application Infrastructure with 10 reviews. NGINX Plus is rated 8.8, while Zend PHP Engine is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zend PHP Engine writes "The fact that it is available open-source is the best feature". NGINX Plus is most compared with IIS, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Apache Web Server, whereas Zend PHP Engine is most compared with Apache Web Server. See our NGINX Plus vs. Zend PHP Engine report.
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