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Improve Nginx Performance: Direct File Transfers

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💡 A quick tip to boost Nginx performance:

👉🏼 Speed up file transfers by using sendfile() to copy directly between descriptors rather than using read() & write().

Improve Nginx performance by setting sendfile directive in the https block to on.

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