AI-generated summary
In this article, the author discusses their experience with using nginx as a reverse proxy and enabling GZIP compression. They explain that they were facing performance issues with a website project that required frequent database queries when the sitemap was being crawled. To reduce the performance impact, they implemented pre-caching for the sitemap queries. They also mention that they were using a CDN with their domain, which resulted in low traffic consumption. However, after implementing the reverse proxy for load balancing, they noticed a significant increase in traffic consumption, causing their server to shut down after 15 days. They discovered that the GZIP compression was not working between the main server and the reverse proxy, leading to excessive communication between the servers. To resolve this issue, they found a solution on Google, which they provide a link to.
