Recommendations you can check.
Who uses, recommends or left Nginx, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.
2 people and 2 companies
nginx was a great call, its a lot easier to set up and maintain over Apache (especially for non-PHP apps), and Gunicorn works brilliant in conjunction.
Zapier on choosing nginx and Gunicorn in its early stack
2012-01-27·zapier.com ↗
My own $0/mo Nginx VPS video streaming (saves ~$250/mo)
Post listing the SaaS subscriptions he replaced with tools he built himself, with the monthly savings for each swap.
2026-09-09·x.com ↗
Nginx web server
His public "what I use" page listing the hardware, software and services he actually runs; a ♥ marks the ones he singles out. Page states "Last update: 2026-06-07".
2026-06-07·sive.rs ↗
As Cloudflare has scaled we’ve outgrown NGINX. It was great for many years, but over time its limitations at our scale meant building something new made sense.
Cloudflare on outgrowing NGINX and replacing it with Pingora
2022-09-14·blog.cloudflare.com ↗
Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.
The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.
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