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NGINX Plus vs. Citrix NetScaler: A Price‑Performance Comparison table, th, td { border: 1px solid black; } th { background-color: #d3d3d3; align: left; padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 2px; line-height: 120%; } td { padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 5px; line-height: 120%; } A few months ago we published a blog comparing the price and performance of NGINX Plus vs. F5 BIG‑IP hardware application delivery controllers (ADCs). In researching and publishing that blog, we learned that by moving from F5 BIG‑IP to NGINX Plus you can drastically reduce costs while maintaining the same feature set and level of performance. In this blog we’re again comparing NGINX Plus price and performance, this time with Citrix NetScaler ADCs, and the results are just as strong as with F5 BIG‑IP ADCs. You can replace Citrix NetScaler ADCs with NGINX Plus and save up to 89% without any sacrifice in performance or critical features. [ more… ]

Move Your Enterprise Applications to the Cloud with this Free O’Reilly Ebook More and more enterprises are migrating their applications to the cloud, doubtless having noticed the phenomenal success of innovative startups like Airbnb, Netflix, and Uber. Those companies have fully exploited the cloud to catapult themselves from small challengers to category leaders in a few short years. Taking advantage of the flexibility and efficiency of the cloud to speed up their development processes, they’ve built amazing products and quickly captured tens of millions of users, an achievement that just a decade ago we would have expected only from large, established corporations with huge budgets. Unfortunately, however, successfully migrating enterprise applications to the cloud is not easy. This process requires rearchitecting applications that have been built in a certain way for years, if not decades. To achieve business goals and [ more… ]

Securing URLs with the Secure Link Module in NGINX and NGINX Plus Both the open source NGINX software and NGINX Plus are very secure and reliable as web servers, reverse proxies, and caches for your content. For additional protection against access by unauthorized clients, you can use directives from the Secure Link module to require that clients include a specific hashed string in the URL of the asset they are requesting. In this blog post, we will discuss how to configure the two methods implemented in the Secure Link module. The sample configuration snippets protect HTML and media playlist files, but can be applied to any type of HTTP URL. The methods apply to both NGINX and NGINX Plus, but for the sake of brevity we’ll refer only to NGINX Plus for the rest of the blog. An Overview of the Methods in the Secure Link [ more… ]