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Full blog post can be found here: http://pnommensen.com/2014/09/07/high-performance-ghost-configuration-with-nginx/

Ghost is an open source platform for blogging founded by John O'Nolan and Hannah Wolfe. It's a node.js application and therefore works great in conjunction with nginx. This guide will will help you create a high performance nginx virtual host configuration for Ghost.

"Don't use #nodejs for static content" - @trevnorris. If #nginx isn't sitting in front of your node server, you're probably doing it wrong.

— Bryan Hughes (@nebrius) August 30, 2014

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The node.js application runs on a port on your server

vvo

# sets the proxy cache path location, max size 2g
proxy_cache_path  /data/nginx/cache  levels=1:2 keys_zone=STATIC:100m inactive=24h max_size=2g;

# transfers the `Host` header to the backend
proxy_set_header        Host $host;

# uses the defined STATIC cache zone
proxy_cache             STATIC;

# cache 200 10 minutes, 404 1 minute, others status codes not cached