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UdemyNGINX Fundamentals: High Performance Servers from Scratch
4.7(9,575)50k students
UdemyNGINX powers some of the fastest sites on the web, yet many developers and admins treat it as a black box. This practical course, delivered in 39 concise lectures, moves past Apache comparisons straight into hands-on setup: installing, configuring, connecting a backend, and tuning for real-world performance through Gzipping, GeoIP, and SSL hardening.
Built for network admins and web developers who need to move quickly, the course skips the theory and shows you exactly how to build, secure, and optimize NGINX from scratch—skills that immediately apply to the infrastructure you manage.
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.
This course will provide a very practical and concise approach to learning NGINX and will give you a solid base to immediately start creating secure, high performance web servers.
Content and Overview
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 course starts by looking at the differences between NGINX and Apache for those with Apache experience and then explains the different ways of installing NGINX, customising your install, and configuring NGINX as a service.
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.
Upon completion of this course you will have the practical skills to immediately start building secure, high performance web servers or improve and better understand existing hosting solutions you might work with.
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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Not the best price we've seen. The lowest we've recorded is $11.99 on 17 Aug.
This is what we recorded in US pricing — not every price this course has ever had, and prices differ by country.
