05/08/2026

openssl-nginx: A Dedicated OpenSSL Build for NGINX and Angie

The OpenSSL that ships with your distro handles everything — mail clients, SSH daemons, package managers. That’s the problem. openssl-nginx is a lean, performance-tuned OpenSSL 3.5 built specifically for NGINX and Angie: kTLS offload, faster elliptic curves, hardware entropy, and zero legacy bloat.

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05/04/2026

How to Optimize Nginx and Angie for Maximum Performance and Security

A complete expert guide to nginx performance optimization and security hardening on Debian and Ubuntu. Covers HTTP/3, TLS 1.3, brotli, ModSecurity WAF, FastCGI cache, PHP-Snuffleupagus, and the best WordPress plugins — with every directive explained.

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05/04/2026

Complete Guide to Using Nginx with Lua: Enhanced Web Server Functionality

How to use the nginx Lua module (ngx_http_lua) from the myguard repository: install, LuaJIT performance, cosocket I/O, Redis rate limiting, JWT auth, LRU caching, dynamic routing and body transformation. Includes lua-resty library overview and Lua vs NJS comparison.

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