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Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks
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Re: Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks
#32"F5 is committed to continued innovation and increasing investment in the NGINX open source project to empower NGINX’s widespread user communities." from https://www.f5.com/company/news/press-releases/f5-acquires-n... what do we know of F5 history in open source?
I think the issue is that there isn't much and certainly nginx could be viewed as competitor to F5. And with everything else going on it's not difficult to imagine that this acquisition isn't a positive sign.
Could it, really? I know that nginx has some builtin load balancing, but unless it's vastly vastly changed in the past few years, it's still a LONG way behind haproxy for load balancing.
nginx is an excellent high performance webserver, which is something F5 don't really have. It is (or was, at least) at best a mediocre load balancer, with all sorts of limitations at the sort of scales you'd usually use an F5 box for. While it's probably fair to wonder how much more work will be put into the LB feature-set of nginx, I hope that this will be counterbalanced by increased funding for the core feature of being a superlative webserver.
Re: Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks
#33I'm nervous about what this means for the future of nginx's built in load balancing. That's been an important and rock-solid part of my infrastructure.
Throwing out a question to the room: if the worst happens and Nginx gets butchered, would it be so bad to go back to using Apache? I've never used it really, everything I've done has been Nginx, but is there some technical reason why Apache wouldn't be a fine fallback option for an open-source server?
If you like nginx, why would you fall back to apache instead of forking it, or using one of the many existing forks?
That's one of the best parts of OSS code - You don't just have to follow them to the next version they release.
(One example is Tengine - It is really nicely setup and a lot of people prefer it to core nginx already)
Re: Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks
#34what are some good alternatives to nginx?
Obviously Apache, IIS
Re: Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks
#35I'm nervous about what this means for the future of nginx's built in load balancing. That's been an important and rock-solid part of my infrastructure.
Throwing out a question to the room: if the worst happens and Nginx gets butchered, would it be so bad to go back to using Apache? I've never used it really, everything I've done has been Nginx, but is there some technical reason why Apache wouldn't be a fine fallback option for an open-source server?
Apache takes a few ms more for ssl termination.
It's generally something around 20-50ms extra last time I did some benchmarks
Re: Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks
#36In the event that F5 pulls an Oracle and horribly mismanages nginx, runs it into the ground, or tries to close it off, I vote we name the community fork "nginy".
Re: Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks
#37F5 Networks - never heard of them.
After reading what they do I am not sure whether I should have heard of them.
Re: Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks
#38Re: Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks
#39what are some good alternatives to nginx?
Depending on what you're doing, haproxy is usually a better choice than nginx.
Re: Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks
#40I'm nervous about what this means for the future of nginx's built in load balancing. That's been an important and rock-solid part of my infrastructure.
Throwing out a question to the room: if the worst happens and Nginx gets butchered, would it be so bad to go back to using Apache? I've never used it really, everything I've done has been Nginx, but is there some technical reason why Apache wouldn't be a fine fallback option for an open-source server?
Nginx has historically been easier to scale up out of the box. Not to say Apache can't be configured to be competitive, but there's at least the perception that it's not as good at concurrency [1].
[1] https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/215945987-Web-s...