My general Nginx config

nginx.conf

# user http;
# user www-data;
worker_processes  4;

# [ debug | info | notice | warn | error | crit ]
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log warn;

events {
    worker_connections  1024;

    # use [ kqueue | rtsig | epoll | /dev/poll | select | poll ];
    use epoll;
}

http {

    ##
    # Basic Settings
    ##

    include       mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;

    # off | on
    server_tokens on;
    # server_names_hash_bucket_size 64;
    # server_name_in_redirect off;

    client_header_timeout  3m;
    client_body_timeout    3m;
    send_timeout           3m;

    client_header_buffer_size    1k;
    large_client_header_buffers  4 4k;
    client_max_body_size         10m;
    types_hash_max_size          8048;

    sendfile          on;
    tcp_nopush        on;
    tcp_nodelay       on;

    keepalive_timeout  65;
    
    ##
    # Logs
    ##

    log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
                      '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
                      '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';

    ##
    # Gzip
    ##

    gzip              on;
    gzip_min_length   1100;
    gzip_buffers      4 8k; # 16 8k
    gzip_types        text/plain text/css application/json application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;
    gzip_disable      "msie6";
    # gzip_vary on;
    # gzip_proxied any;
    # gzip_comp_level 6;
    # gzip_http_version 1.1;

    server {
        server_name _ "";

        access_log off;
        log_subrequest off;
        log_not_found off;

        return 444;
    }
    
    ##
    # Virtual Host Configs
    ##
  
    include /srv/http/*/nginx.conf;
}