Nginx Fundamentals: High Performance Servers from Scratch (2018)

Learn how to install & configure an Nginx web server from scratch.

Learn to install, configure and tweak NGINX to create secure, high performance web servers from scratch.

Build a strong foundation in NGINX with this practical course suited to both beginners and the more experienced.

Learn to customise the NGINX installation
Configure NGINX as a web server
Install & configure a server-side programming language as an NGINX backend
Learn to tweak NGINX for optimal performance
Secure NGINX with some security best practises

An invaluable skill for any techie or developer in the web industry

NGINX is the fastest growing and most popular web server for a reason, so understanding it will be an invaluable skill to anyone working in the web industry, specially network admins & web developers.

With 39 concise and practical lectures, this course aims to teach a solid foundational understanding of NGINX and is suitable for anyone with a basic understanding of networking and the linux command line interface.

The installation section also covers updating NGINX without downtime and adding/removing modules.

The bulk of the course is then focussed on configuring NGINX as a web server, including connecting it to a PHP backend and configuring some of NGINX’s best features, such as Gzipping and GeoIP.

The final section will go over securing the server and the user via SSL and other security best practices.

This course is to the point and everything is demonstrated in the most simple, yet practical ways.

We do not focus on the theory, but get straight to installing, configuring and learning!

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