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Nothing special, as far as I know. Our nginx config is public [1]. We serve static files directly through nginx and proxy to a gunicorn server for dynamic content. We're a single virtual private server on AWS (soon to be a single dedicated server on Voxility).

[1] https://github.com/MediaCrush/MediaCrush/blob/master/config/...

Have you thought about putting Cloudflare in front of your site to reduce bandwidth consumption?

We have CloudFlare set up, but we only plan to turn it on to mitigate DoS attacks and help out if we run into non-malicious severe load.

Why not use their CDN to offload? (No snark! As an infrastructure guy, I'm always curious why people decide to do certain things certain ways)

Well, we make a big deal about user privacy, and I don't want to give a third party access to that kind of information.

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