I’ve been thinking of trying to conserve memory-heavy unicorn instances by configuring my external nginx (which I already have for serving 502 maintenance page and for correctly attributing IPv6 addresses) to also serve requests for images; with the intent of getting much of the value of moving them…

We already serve the images using the internal nginx in the container. config/nginx.sample.conf main location ~ /stylesheet-cache/ { add_header Access-Control-Allow-Origin *; try_files $uri =404; } …

Oh. At least now the next person with this bright idea might find it when they search for it. Many thanks! :grin:

I would guess that enabling caching on the external nginx would have the same benefit with respect to loading the unicorns, without having to set up a CDN. I see cache control headers on all the javascript assets, so I might give this a try… … well, I see the internal nginx is also already using pr…

Conserving unicorns by serving images with nginx?

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Falco (Falco) January 30, 2021, 3:16pm 4

If you want to help your unicorns, one thing that actually helps is Enable a CDN for your Discourse, as it will cache the few assets that are served on unicorns like the stylesheets.

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Conserving unicorns by serving images with nginx?

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