Nginx Advanced Configuration and Performance Tuning

Nginx has become the web server of choice for high-traffic websites, serving over 40% of the top 10,000 websites globally. Its event-driven architecture and low memory footprint make it ideal for modern web applications. This guide explores advanced Nginx configuration techniques and performance optimization strategies for production environments. High-performance Nginx web server configuration Understanding Nginx Architecture Nginx uses an asynchronous event-driven architecture, fundamentally different from Apache’s process/thread-per-connection model. This design enables Nginx to handle thousands of concurrent connections with minimal memory usage[1].