Cloud & Infrastructure
Nginx Development
The web server that quietly handles everything in front.
Nginx is infrastructure in the best sense: it does its job for years without attention. It serves static files faster than an application ever will, terminates TLS, proxies to application processes, balances across them and applies rate limits before a request reaches your code.
Most performance problems we are asked to investigate have a partial answer at this layer — assets served with no cache headers, compression disabled, or every request reaching PHP that need not have.
Why we use it
Nginx fronts our production deployments. Static assets are served directly with long cache lifetimes and correct compression, TLS is terminated with modern ciphers, and rate limits sit here rather than in application code where they cost a database connection to enforce.
It is also the cheapest place to fix several classes of performance problem, which makes it the first place we look.
Planning a Nginx project?
We will tell you honestly whether it is the right choice for what you are building.