Best NGINX Practices for High-Traffic Informational Sites

[whataburgermenu]

Hello everyone,

I’m currently managing an informational website that focuses on sharing updated fast food menus and prices — particularly Whataburger’s. Since we receive steady organic traffic from users looking for quick, accurate menu details, performance is a top priority.

I’m using NGINX as the web server and have applied gzip compression and basic caching. I’m now exploring the best ways to reduce TTFB and handle unexpected traffic spikes without overloading the server.

Here’s the site for reference: this fast food pricing guide

I’d appreciate any tips or modules that have worked well for you when optimizing content-heavy websites with frequent page views.

Thanks in advance!

[whataburgermenu]

Thanks for starting this helpful thread!

I’m currently managing a fast food information site that regularly receives high traffic, especially during lunch and dinner hours. We provide updated menu and pricing details for Whataburger and similar chains.

To keep things running smoothly, I’ve implemented gzip compression, browser caching, and connected the site with Cloudflare for basic CDN support. So far, NGINX has been extremely reliable for handling load spikes.

If anyone’s interested, here’s the site I’m working on: check this page — always open to feedback and suggestions!

Right now, I’m fine-tuning buffer sizes and reviewing worker limits. Would love to know what optimizations others have found effective for content-based sites like this one.

Thanks again for the insights shared so far!

[furqanhamid]

@whataburgermenu

Hello everyone,

I’m currently managing an informational website that focuses on sharing updated fast food menus and prices — particularly Whataburger’s. Since we receive steady organic traffic from users looking for quick, accurate menu details, performance is a top priority.

I’m using NGINX as the web server and have applied gzip compression and basic caching. I’m now exploring the best ways to reduce TTFB and handle unexpected traffic spikes without overloading the server.

Here’s the site for reference: this fast food pricing guide

I’d appreciate any tips or modules that have worked well for you when optimizing content-heavy websites with frequent page views.

Thanks in advance!

Great work optimizing with gzip and caching already! To further reduce TTFB and handle spikes, consider enabling fastcgi_cache for dynamic content and using proxy_cache for upstream assets. Load balancing with multiple NGINX instances (or a CDN like Cloudflare) can also help absorb surges. Tuning worker processes and connection limits (worker_processes, worker_connections) is another quick win.