NGINX Early Hints: HTTP 103 Benchmarked on Enterprise Linux
by Danila Vershinin, August 11, 2026
NGINX early hints support arrived in 1.29.0, but every stock Enterprise Linux, Debian and Ubuntu package still ships something older. We install a current NGINX from GetPageSpeed, configure the safe HTTP/2 gate, and benchmark what HTTP 103 does to LCP with interleaved arms and an A/A noise control.
Read More...aws-lc NGINX in 2026: Why we still ship quictls
by Danila Vershinin, April 26, 2026
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.
Read More...How to Enable NGINX HTTP/3 on Ubuntu and Debian
by Danila Vershinin, April 11, 2026
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 config, restart, and Chrome still negotiates HTTP/2. Or worse: HTTP/3 appears to work, but connections silently die after every nginx -s reload. Both problems trace back to how stock Debian/Ubuntu nginx […]
Read More...NGINX HTTP/3 Is Broken After Reload — Here’s the Fix F5 Won’t Ship
by Danila Vershinin, March 13, 2026
NGINX silently drops ~50% of HTTP/3 connections after reload when quic_bpf is enabled. The bug has been known for over a year. F5 won’t fix it. nginx-mod ships the fix today.
Read More...NGINX http3 http_host Is Empty — Here’s the Fix
by Danila Vershinin, February 6, 2026
NGINX HTTP/3 leaves $http_host empty, breaking FastCGI, proxy configs, and logs. nginx-mod fixed this at the protocol layer — four months before upstream shipped a partial workaround.
Read More...Enable NGINX HTTP3 (QUIC) on RHEL, Rocky Linux, CentOS & Fedora
by Danila Vershinin, November 6, 2022
Learn how to enable NGINX HTTP/3 on Rocky Linux, RHEL, CentOS, and Fedora. Install QUIC-enabled packages, configure firewall for UDP 443, and verify HTTP/3.
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