Nginx Has a Free Reverse Proxy That Handles 10,000 Concurrent Connections

Nginx serves static files, reverse proxies to your app, load balances across servers, and terminates SSL — all with a minimal memory footprint. Why Every Production App Uses Nginx Your Node.js/Python/Go app shouldn't serve static files, handle SSL, or load balance. That's infrastructure work. Nginx does it better, faster, and more reliably. What You Get for Free Reverse proxy: server { listen 80 ; server_name myapp.com ; location / { proxy_pass http://localhost:3000 ; proxy_set_header Host $host ; proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr ; } location /api { proxy_pass http://localhost:4000 ; } } SSL termination (with Let's Encrypt): server { listen 443 ssl ; ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/myapp.com/fullchain.pem ; ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/myapp.com/privkey.pem ; location / { proxy_pass http://localhost:3000 ; } } Load balancing: upstream backend { server 10.0.0.1 : 3000 ; server 10.0.0.2 : 3000 ; server 10.0.0.3 : 3000 ; } server { location / { proxy_pass http://