# NGINX Tuning (Reverse Proxy)

Nginx tuning comes in two parts.. The “worker process” tuning, and the virtual server / Server Block tuning.

## NGINX official repo vs Distro repos

Alex Conner has recommended some NGINX tuning.

* Installing the mainline from the official nginx.org repo over the ubuntu stock repo.\
  official repo packages [http://nginx.org/en/linux\_packages.html#Ubun](http://nginx.org/en/linux_packages.html#Ubuntu)tu
* “The default systemd config from[ nginx.org](http://nginx.org) is pretty solid”


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