NGINX Microcaching: Full-Page Caching Without Varnish
NGINX microcaching the Varnish way: serve dynamic pages from RAM via core proxy_cache on tmpfs, with stale-while-revalidate and request coalescing.
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Whitelist OpenAI IP Ranges in NGINX and fail2ban
If you want ChatGPT Search, GPTBot, and OpenAI’s on-demand fetcher to actually reach your content, the answer is not just “set Allow: / in…
NGINX limit_req Per Hour, Day, Week, Month with NGINX-MOD
Stock NGINX rejects rate=10r/h. The NGINX-MOD limit_req_rate patch adds hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly rate units so SREs can express quotas the way…
NGINX Dynamic TLS Records: An Honest Benchmark in 2026
We rebuilt nginx-mod with Cloudflare's 2015 dynamic TLS records patch and benchmarked it in a controlled rig with random interleave, CPU pinning, and 200…
aws-lc NGINX in 2026: Why we still ship quictls
Why GetPageSpeed packages aws-lc on EL but still links nginx-mod against quictls in 2026: the honest current state of TLS for NGINX HTTP/3.
NGINX slow_start: Gradual Upstream Ramp-Up Without Plus
NGINX Plus has slow_start to ramp traffic to freshly-live upstream servers from zero to full weight. Open-source NGINX has the struct field but never…
NGINX Immutable Module: Far-Future Cache-Control Headers
Cut wasted revalidation requests on versioned static assets. The NGINX immutable module emits RFC-compliant far-future Cache-Control headers with the immutable attribute, stale-while-revalidate, and stale-if-error…
How to Enable NGINX HTTP/3 on Ubuntu and Debian
Getting NGINX HTTP/3 on Ubuntu to actually work is harder than the nginx docs make it look. You enable http3 on; in your NGINX…
NGINX JSONP: Safe Cross-Origin APIs with the XSS Module
Serve cross-origin JSONP from NGINX without the callback injection risk. The XSS module validates callback names against a strict JavaScript-identifier grammar, so hostile query…
NGINX XSLT Module: Transform XML Responses into HTML
Learn how to use the NGINX XSLT module to transform XML responses into HTML, RSS feeds into styled web pages, and XML API output…