Nginx config file with SSL/TLS, security, speed and Cloudflare optimisations. (Work in progress)

nginx.conf

# For more information on configuration, see:
#   * Official English Documentation: http://nginx.org/en/docs/
#   * Official Russian Documentation: http://nginx.org/ru/docs/

user nginx;
worker_processes auto;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
pid /run/nginx.pid;

events {
    worker_connections 1024;
}

http {
    log_format cf_custom '$http_cf_connecting_ip - $remote_user [$time_local]  '
                         '"$request" $status $body_bytes_sent '
                         '"$http_referer" "$http_user_agent" '
                         '$http_cf_ray';

    access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log cf_custom;

    sendfile            on;
    tcp_nopush          on;
    tcp_nodelay         on;
    keepalive_timeout   65;
    types_hash_max_size 2048;
    index index.htm index.html index.php;

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

    # Load modular configuration files from the /etc/nginx/conf.d directory.
    # See http://nginx.org/en/docs/ngx_core_module.html#include
    # for more information.
    include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;

    # Don't send the nginx version number in error pages and Server headers.
    server_tokens off;

    # Load configuration files for the default server block.
    include /etc/nginx/default.d/*.conf;

    # Prevent the browser from rendering the page inside a frame or iframe to avoid clickjacking.
    # http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickjacking
    # If you need to allow [i]frames, you can use SAMEORIGIN or set the URI the ALLOW-FROM URI.
    # https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTTP/X-Frame-Options
    add_header X-Frame-Options SAMEORIGIN;

    # When serving user-supplied content, include an X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header along with the Content-Type: header
    # to disable content-type sniffing on some browsers.
    # https://www.owasp.org/index.php/List_of_useful_HTTP_headers
    # Currently supported in IE > 8 http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2008/09/02/ie8-security-part-vi-beta-2-update.aspx
    # http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/gg622941(v=vs.85).aspx
    # 'soon' on Firefox https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=471020
    add_header X-Content-Type-Options nosniff;

    # This header enables the Cross-site scripting (XSS) filter built into most recent web browsers.
    # It's usually enabled by default anyway, so the role of this header is to re-enable the filter for
    # this particular website if it was disabled by the user.
    # https://www.owasp.org/index.php/List_of_useful_HTTP_headers
    add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block";

    # with Content Security Policy (CSP) enabled(and a browser that supports it (http://caniuse.com/#feat=contentsecuritypolicy),
    # you can tell the browser that it can only download content from the domains you explicitly allow
    # http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/security/content-security-policy/
    # https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Content_Security_Policy
    # I need to change our application code so we can increase security by disabling 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval'
    # directives for css and js(if you have inline css or js, you will need to keep it too).
    # more: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/security/content-security-policy/#inline-code-considered-harmful
    add_header Content-Security-Policy "default-src 'self'; script-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval' https://ssl.google-analytics.com; img-src 'self' https://ssl.google-analytics.com; style-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' https://fonts.googleapis.com; font-src 'self' https://themes.googleusercontent.com; frame-src 'none'; object-src 'none'";

    # Enable ocsp stapling (mechanism by which a site can convey certificate revocation information to visitors in a privacy-preserving, scalable manner)
    # http://blog.mozilla.org/security/2013/07/29/ocsp-stapling-in-firefox/
    resolver 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4 valid=300s ipv6=off; # Google DNS
    resolver_timeout 30s;
    ssl_stapling on;
    ssl_stapling_verify on;
    ssl_trusted_certificate /path/to/keyfile/staple.pem;

    # Cloudflare IP blocks to allow for the restoration of original visitor IP address in log files, instead of the reverse
    # proxy address of the Cloudflare servers.
    # An updated list of Cloudflare addresses can be found here: https://www.cloudflare.com/ips/
    set_real_ip_from 103.21.244.0/22;
    set_real_ip_from 103.22.200.0/22;
    set_real_ip_from 103.31.4.0/22;
    set_real_ip_from 104.16.0.0/12;
    set_real_ip_from 108.162.192.0/18;
    set_real_ip_from 131.0.72.0/22;
    set_real_ip_from 141.101.64.0/18;
    set_real_ip_from 162.158.0.0/15;
    set_real_ip_from 172.64.0.0/13;
    set_real_ip_from 173.245.48.0/20;
    set_real_ip_from 188.114.96.0/20;
    set_real_ip_from 190.93.240.0/20;
    set_real_ip_from 197.234.240.0/22;
    set_real_ip_from 198.41.128.0/17;
    set_real_ip_from 199.27.128.0/21;
    set_real_ip_from 2400:cb00::/32;
    set_real_ip_from 2606:4700::/32;
    set_real_ip_from 2803:f800::/32;
    set_real_ip_from 2405:b500::/32;
    set_real_ip_from 2405:8100::/32;
    set_real_ip_from 2c0f:f248::/32;
    set_real_ip_from 2a06:98c0::/29;

    # Use any of the following two:
    real_ip_header CF-Connecting-IP;
    # real_ip_header X-Forwarded_For

    server {
      listen 443 ssl default deferred;
      listen [::]:443;
      server_name .example.com;

      ssl_certificate     /path/to/keyfile/example.com.pem;
      ssl_certificate_key /path/to/keyfile/example.com.key;

      # Enable session resumption to improve https performance
      # http://vincent.bernat.im/en/blog/2011-ssl-session-reuse-rfc5077.html
      ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:10m;
      ssl_session_timeout 5m;

      # Diffie-Hellman parameter for DHE ciphersuites. Use 4096 bits.
      ssl_dhparam /path/to/keyfile/dhparams.pem;

      # Enables server-side protection from BEAST attacks
      # http://blog.ivanristic.com/2013/09/is-beast-still-a-threat.html
      ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
      # disable SSLv3(enabled by default since nginx 0.8.19) since it's less secure then TLS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer#SSL_3.0
      ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
      # Ciphers chosen for forward secrecy and compatibility
      # http://blog.ivanristic.com/2013/08/configuring-apache-nginx-and-openssl-for-forward-secrecy.html
      ssl_ciphers ECDH+AESGCM:DH+AESGCM:ECDH+AES256:DH+AES256:ECDH+AES128:DH+AES:ECDH+3DES:DH+3DES:RSA+AESGCM:RSA+AES:RSA+3DES:!aNULL:!MD5:!DSS; 

      # Config to enable HSTS(HTTP Strict Transport Security) https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Security/HTTP_Strict_Transport_Security
      # to avoid ssl stripping https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSL_stripping#SSL_stripping
      add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=15552000; includeSubdomains; preload;";

        }


    server {
        listen       80;
        listen       [::]:80;
        server_name  .example.com;
        root         /usr/share/nginx/html;
        return       301 https://$host$request_uri;

        location / {
        }

        error_page 404 /404.html;
            location = /40x.html {
        }

        error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
            location = /50x.html {
        }
    }
}

It would, but this gist was created 6 years ago and hasn't been touched since. Cloudflare DNS wasn't released publicly until 2018, so wasn't available when I created this. If I were doing this now I would definitely use Cloudflare DNS servers as you say.