nginx

“Up until the last couple of years from early-ish 2012, I used nginx for production traffic in a lot of places.”

“an extensive suite of configurable tools to reverse proxy the way you need, with relative safety”

“a three line nginx mitigation (blocking multipart uploads) I wrote in the wee small hours GMT has been quietly protecting a vulnerable machine”

“nginx and the more standard webservers/services oftentimes don't have good support and require quite frankly too much manual configuration”

“I've had issues with nginx still getting IO errors when my server doesn't consume bodies”

“Take whatever is pushing the site over the wire (nginx, Apache, lighthttpd) and use its public APIs to implement your web application.”

“I can rely on gifts to the world like Linux, Debian, PostgreSQL, Apache, Nginx, Caddy, and Yggdrasil without any problems for decades.”

“most of them are low or medium impact and typically only apply to relatively niche modules or configurations”

“Nginx, Caddy, Apache, etc have found and fixed a million edge cases you'd never think of”

“My personal site is hosted on this exact setup. Twice I made the homepage, twice I noticed no slowdown whatsoever.”

“you can also use a reverse proxy like caddy or nginx where encryption and security are primary concerns”

“Now I have meaningful URLs for local apps, and I don't have to remember which one is listening on which port.”

“I couldn't get the web server to not convert it to a / before hitting my code.”

“I just wish nginx / caddy / etc had better out-of-the-box support for letsencrypt”

“a performant web server like nginx for example that is pre configured to serve static files”

“make sure all static assets are served by nginx, add appropriate Cache Control headers”

“there is a ton of knowledge and testing and iteration that has refined it over time”

“just having Nguni in front would help because It’s now filtering the characters which make this attack possible.”

“If you're using nginx/apache/literally anything that does reverse proxying correctly, this shouldn't be a problem”

“NGINX uses async io to handle requests, which is a substantial upgrade from Apache; that's why it's performant.”

“The big three C-based servers: Apache, Nginx, and lighttpd are all pretty solid”

“the official documentation is almost useless, there seem to be many hidden surprises”

“nginx walked into the chat and killed the 10k problem along with having its easy but fancy upstreaming”

“Set proxy_pass_request_headers off, and then explicitly proxy_set_header each individual header you want to forward”

“Its defaults assume that it's fine to do a "normalization" pass to remove double slash”

“Combine with a $5 VPS and nginix reverse proxy to make this true for any device, even ones without tailscale!”

“there is also a reason why large organizations like Cloudflare ran nginx on their edge over any other product”

“Only way I can think of protecting against this is to put a reverse proxy in front of it, like Nginx”

“The key to getting a stable suite was to run tests against a local nginx image serving the web app”

“totally agree that nginx + multiple Node instances is a well-understood and effective setup”

“With nginx and 256 core Epycs, most single servers can easily do 200k requests per sec”

“putting an nginx server in front to do load balancing - which is pretty standard practice”

“i would expect this to comfortably be served by a couple of reasonable old school ngnix servers”

“Nginx doesn’t panic on malformed config. It exits with hopefully a helpful error code and message.”

“I have used apache and nginx directory and file listing functionality with ease.”

“We didn't use nginx because it would drop requests and mess up connections during certain config reloads”

“between nginx buffering and cloudflare I have not been able to sort out getting it to actually work these days”

“Could you please tell me what use cases would nginx be better for, outside of serving static files?”

“handling some of the file IO stuff with, for instance, nginx, might be a better fit for their use case”

“Just install nginx from your repos on your desktop, throw in some .html files to a directory and play.”