NGINX and NGINX Plus can be used as a valuable part of a DDoS mitigation solution, and NGINX Plus provides additional features for protecting against DDoS attacks and helping to identify when they are occurring.

NGINX leads the pack in web performance, and it’s all due to the way the software is designed. Whereas many web servers and application servers use a simple threaded or process-based architecture, NGINX stands out with a sophisticated event-driven architecture that enables it to scale to hundreds of thousands of concurrent connections on modern hardware.

nginx-proxy sets up a container running nginx and docker-gen. docker-gen generates reverse proxy configs for nginx and reloads nginx when containers are started and stopped.