[not_chriscohoat]

Some useful Nginx optimizations, but I've always found that the bottlenecks are far worse elsewhere. Nginx is a champ at serving static files, and I have it proxy all requests upstream to Apache (and use mod_wsgi because the majority of what I work with are Django apps). Optimizing the DB schema and queries have had the most positive performance increases by far, followed by Apache tweaks, and then finally Nginx config changes. But I really love the setup I use for how easy it is to get a Django app spun up.