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Here are some basic configuration I used in my lab:
1. Configure Nginx to do load balancer
2. Configure a backup server
3. Hide Nginx Version Information from Hacker
4. Verify Nginx.conf configuration before apply
5. Reload Nginx.conf without restart service
6. Domain Rewrite
7. Disable Obsolete SSL/TLS Protocols
8. Enable HTTPS
9. Add black and white list
10. Limit request method
11. Deny User-Agent
12. Picture anti-theft chain
13. Controlling the number of concurrent connections
14. Buffer overflow attack
15. Header settings
16. Reverse Proxy Basic Configuration

Create CentOS 7 VM & Update

sudo -i

Install Nginx

I was using LAMP for my WordPress blog for quite a few years. Because of Google Cloud Platform free tier VM's limitation (614M Memory and 1 vCPU), my website always suffering the performance issue if put all of components into one machine. Since last year, I keep trying using a different type of technologies to help. I tried to use Docker, also I separated Mysql db into a different vm. All those changes were working for certain conditions, but not a good enough for GCP f1.micro VM until I find Nginx and MariaDB. This combination has less resource usage and also providing me a possibility to squeeze all components into one GCP free tier f1.micro VM.

This post is to record all steps and commands I used. You will find a YouTube video at the end of post to present the installation process. The whole steps will take 30 minutes to 45 minutes to complete.

I were using Ubuntu 16.04 as my web server and mysql server for quite a few years. They are all in the same server , either running in a docker container or in a service. For better performance, I decided to separate them to different layer. I am going to use GCP Cloud SQL service as my database layer.