Articles

Everything about Angie in one place: what it adds over NGINX (native ACME, JSON API, dynamic upstreams, monthly releases), how it performs, how to migrate from NGINX in five minutes, full ACME certificate setup, Prometheus monitoring, and a side-by-side comparison with NGINX Plus.

Nazi Germany built a cipher machine with 158 quintillion possible settings and called it unbreakable. They were wrong. Here’s the full story of the Enigma machine, the brilliant misfits at Bletchley Park who cracked it, and why the whole thing matters for every padlock icon in your browser today.

ML-KEM (Kyber) is in OpenSSL 3.5. Chrome has shipped hybrid X25519+ML-KEM since 2024. Here is what post-quantum TLS actually is, why it matters before quantum computers exist, and exactly how to configure NGINX and Angie for hybrid PQC key exchange today.

Learn how to configure TLS for maximum security and achieve a perfect A+++ rating on SSLLabs. A comprehensive guide covering cipher selection, certificates, and cryptographic best practices.

Google PageSpeed was the magic module that automatically made your website faster — until Google quietly walked away from it. Here’s the full story: what PageSpeed actually did, why it’s now effectively dead on NGINX and Angie, and what you should use instead.

If your team has finally pushed everything into Kubernetes and you are wondering how to put a sensible web server in front…

Your server’s system OpenSSL juggles SSH, apt, Python, and your web server all at once. openssl-nginx says no to that. Here’s the dedicated OpenSSL built exclusively for NGINX and Angie — faster handshakes, post-quantum crypto, kernel TLS offload, zero legacy bloat.

docker-cms is a PHP 8.5 Docker container loaded with WP-CLI, Composer, Xdebug, database clients, and every tool you need to maintain and debug WordPress — without touching your live server.

The complete guide to building and running an optimised Nginx or Angie server on Debian and Ubuntu — HTTP/3, TLS 1.3, brotli, ModSecurity WAF, FastCGI caching, and eight layers of WordPress defence. Every directive explained.

NJS is NGINX’s built-in JavaScript engine — write real JavaScript that runs inside your web server at request time, with no Node.js, no external services, and microsecond latency.

The NGINX Lua module (ngx_http_lua) runs Lua/LuaJIT scripts inside NGINX worker processes — Redis rate limiting, JWT auth, LRU caching, dynamic routing, all without blocking a single request.

nginx-minimal strips 12 unused static modules from NGINX while keeping HTTP/3, TLS 1.3, jemalloc, zlib-ng, and all 50+ dynamic modules. Smaller binary, smaller attack surface, same blazing speed. Perfect for WordPress, PHP-FPM, and Docker.

Debian deprecated nginx-core, nginx-full, and nginx-light. Don’t panic — the replacements are actually better. Here’s what happened, why it’s good news, and exactly what to install instead.