Tom Sucaet tsucaet

Nginx Tuning For Best Performance

For this configuration you can use web server you like, i decided, because i work mostly with it to use nginx.

Generally, properly configured nginx can handle up to 400,000 to 500,000 requests per second (clustered), most what i saw is 50,000 to 80,000 (non-clustered) requests per second and 30% CPU load, course, this was 2xIntel Xeon with HT enabled, but it can work without problem on slower machines.

You must understand that this config is used in testing environment and not in production so you will need to find a way to implement most of those features best possible for your servers.

First, you will need to install nginx, my way to install nginx is compiling it from source, but for now we will use apt-get

	# Sample Nginx config with sane caching settings for modern web development
	#
	# Motivation:
	# Modern web development often happens with developer tools open, e. g. the Chrome Dev Tools.
	# These tools automatically deactivate all sorts of caching for you, so you always have a fresh
	# and juicy version of your assets available.
	# At some point, however, you want to show your work to testers, your boss or your client.
	# After you implemented and deployed their feedback, they reload the testing page – and report
	# the exact same issues as before! What happened? Of course, they did not have developer tools
	# open, and of course, they did not empty their caches before navigating to your site.

	http {

	...
	server {
	listen 80;
	server_name example.com;
	root /var/www/exmaple.com/www/;
	index index.cfm;
	set $lucee_context "example.com";

	####################
	# FROM MAIN COMPUTER
	####################
	# Create the sync directory in Dropbox
	$ mkdir ~/Dropbox/sublime-text-3

	# Move your ST3 "Packages" and "Installed Packages" to Dropbox
	$ cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Sublime\ Text\ 3
	$ mv Packages/ ~/Dropbox/sublime-text-3
	$ mv Installed\ Packages/ ~/Dropbox/sublime-text-3

	# /etc/fail2ban/jail.local

	# [...]

	[nginx-dos]
	# Based on apache-badbots but a simple IP check (any IP requesting more than
	# 240 pages in 60 seconds, or 4p/s average, is suspicious)
	# Block for two full days.
	# @author Yannick Warnier
	enabled = true

	// Use Gists to store code you would like to remember later on
	console.log(window); // log the "window" object to the console