Nginx Competence Center - Swiss expertise, enterprise performance

Nginx is one of the most widely used open-source web servers in the world. Originally created by Igor Sysoev and now maintained by F5, Nginx serves as a high-performance web server, reverse proxy, load balancer, and HTTP cache. It is known for its event-driven architecture that handles thousands of concurrent connections with minimal memory usage. Nginx powers a significant portion of the world's busiest websites and is a critical component of modern application delivery infrastructure.

VSHN provides end-to-end Nginx consulting covering architecture design, configuration development and review, performance optimization, capacity planning, monitoring setup, and team training. We assess your current web server infrastructure, recommend an optimal Nginx deployment strategy, and deliver production-ready configurations. Our engineers also provide ongoing advisory services for teams that want expert guidance on reverse proxy best practices, load balancing strategies, and integration with application platforms.

VSHN offers tiered support plans for Nginx environments. Our best-effort plan is suitable for development and staging environments. Our production support plans guarantee 99.99% response availability, with critical incidents responded to within one hour around the clock. All SLA commitments are documented in a written service agreement signed before any engagement begins. Support covers Nginx configuration issues, performance degradation, proxy errors, and integration questions with your application stack.

VSHN ensures all Nginx configurations, virtual host files, and deployment manifests are version-controlled and backed up. We maintain encrypted off-site backups of all configuration artifacts with backup storage included. Disaster recovery procedures are documented and tested regularly, ensuring a full Nginx environment can be rebuilt and operational within defined recovery time objectives. We also advise on blue-green deployment strategies to minimize downtime during configuration changes or version upgrades.

Yes. VSHN deploys and configures Nginx on Swiss cloud providers by default, including cloudscale.ch and Exoscale, both of which operate data centres exclusively in Switzerland. If data residency is a compliance requirement for your organization, these providers are the recommended choice. We also support AWS (Zurich region), Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure where Swiss regions are available. Your data sovereignty requirements are documented in the service agreement.

VSHN is an official F5 partner with certified expertise in Nginx deployment and operations. This partnership means we have direct access to F5 engineering support, early security advisories, and validated deployment patterns. Our engineers hold F5 certifications and follow official best practices for Nginx configuration, performance tuning, and security hardening.

Yes. VSHN has deep expertise in running Nginx on Kubernetes, including on APPUiO, our Swiss Kubernetes managed platform. We design Nginx deployments as Kubernetes-native workloads with proper health checks, horizontal pod autoscaling, and graceful shutdown handling. Nginx is widely used as an Ingress controller in Kubernetes clusters, and VSHN provides consulting on both the community Ingress-NGINX controller and the F5 NGINX Ingress Controller for enterprise requirements.

Yes. VSHN has extensive experience with both the open-source Nginx community edition and the commercial NGINX Plus product from F5. The open-source edition is ideal for reverse proxying, static content serving, and basic load balancing. NGINX Plus adds enterprise features including native JWT token validation for API authentication, advanced load balancing with session persistence, active health checks, live activity monitoring, and the NGINX App Protect WAF for application-layer security against OWASP Top 10 threats. As an official F5 partner, VSHN can advise on which edition fits your requirements.

Contact us using the form below. Tell us about your current web server architecture, traffic volume, the challenges you are facing - for example high latency, complex proxy configurations, or scaling concerns - and your preferred cloud provider such as cloudscale.ch, Exoscale, AWS, or Google Cloud. We provide a written requirements analysis and cost estimate within one business day. There is no commitment at the scoping stage.