If you’re looking to gain a bit more performance out of your NGINX web server, Jack Wallen shows you how with the help of gzip compression. NGINX is an outstanding, open source web server. It’s easy ...

I’ve been running WordPress on Nginx for a couple of years now with great success in our data center. We host roughly 100 installs on modestly provisioned VMs, some that handle 1 million+ page views ...

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If you have an NGINX site that must allow users to upload files, try this configuration to help prevent possible Denial-of-Service attacks. Out of the box, NGINX sets a limit of 1MB for file uploads.

Nginx is an open-source and free-to-use web server. In reality, it is not your average web server, one can use it as a reverse proxy, load balancer, mail proxy, and HTTP cache Nginx web server was ...

nginx is the web server that's replacing Apache in more and more of the world's websites. Until now, nginx has not been able to benefit from the security ModSecurity provides. Here's how to install ...

We use Nginx in our hosting cluster where we have many tenants/vhosts. Although I’m not sure it was necessary to choose Nginx over Apache, we have been able to squeeze a lot of performance from our ...