nginx.conf

#user
user www-data www-data;

# This number should be, at maximum, the number of CPU cores on your system. 
# (since nginx doesn't benefit from more than one worker per CPU.)
worker_processes 1;

#pid
pid /var/run/nginx.pid;


events{
  use epoll;
	multi_accept on;
	# Determines how many clients will be served by each worker process.
	# (Max clients = worker_connections * worker_processes)
	# "Max clients" is also limited by the number of socket connections available on the system (~64k)
	worker_connections 1024;	
}

http{
	include       mime.types;
  default_type  application/octet-stream;
	
	# Load config files from the /etc/nginx/conf.d directory
	include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;

	# only log critical errors
	error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
	
	# turn off access log
	access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;

	# cache informations about FDs, frequently accessed files
	# can boost performance, but you need to test those values
	open_file_cache max=50000 inactive=20s; 
	open_file_cache_valid 30s; 
	open_file_cache_min_uses 2;
	open_file_cache_errors on;

	# cache zones for proxy
  proxy_buffering           on;
  proxy_cache_valid         any 10m;
	proxy_cache_path /var/cache/nginx levels=1:2
			 keys_zone=microcache:5m 
			 max_size=1000m inactive=600m;
	proxy_temp_path /var/cache/tmp;
	proxy_buffer_size         4k;
  proxy_buffers             100 8k;
	proxy_cache_key "$scheme$host$request_uri";

	# copies data between one FD and other from within the kernel
	# faster then read() + write()
	sendfile on;

	# send headers in one peace, its better then sending them one by one 
	tcp_nopush on;

	# don't buffer data sent, good for small data bursts in real time
	tcp_nodelay on;

	# server will close connection after this time
	keepalive_timeout 30;

	# allow the server to close connection on non responding client, this will free up memory
	reset_timedout_connection on;

	# request timed out -- default 60
	client_body_timeout 10;

	# if client stop responding, free up memory -- default 60
	send_timeout 2;

	# reduce the data that needs to be sent over network
	gzip on;
	gzip_min_length 10240;
	gzip_proxied expired no-cache no-store private auth;
	gzip_types text/plain text/css text/xml text/javascript application/x-javascript application/xml;
	gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6]\.";

	# security
	server_tokens off;

	# sites
	include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
}

sites-enabled

server {
  listen   80;

  index index.php index.html index.htm;

  server_name web.com;

  # cache static files
  location ~*  \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|ico|css|js)$ {
    expires 365d;
    access_log off;
    add_header Cache-Control public;

    root /var/www/oldwebiny/sites/web;
  }

  location / {
    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;
    proxy_redirect	off;

    proxy_set_header   Host             $host;
    proxy_set_header   X-Real-IP        $remote_addr;
    proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-For  $remote_addr;

    proxy_cache     microcache;
    proxy_cache_valid  200 302 304 10m;
    proxy_cache_valid  301 1h;
    proxy_cache_valid  any 1m;
  }

  location ~ /\.ht {
    deny all;
  }
}