Nginx – Speed: nginx serving static content even faster: fixed folder ; how can I

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we run centos and nginx one of latest versions in 2016. We use 1 media directory with some underlying subdirectories. FTTB for php is 200ms which is very fast – but now I discovered that the JS CSS and JPG statis content also has 200ms FTTB (download is fast at only 30ms) ….

question: what is a working nginx directive so we can optimze our nginx config for the statis content? (so files are served insanely fast)

Currently all files are on the same server as the mother php file. But I don't believe a CDN makes a lot of difference. Or would it?

help appreciated

location /media { fttb = super_fast; }

References I found:
– https://www.nginx.com/resources/admin-guide/serving-static-content/

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This is our solution so far - but it looks like our server was already configured for speed. Improvements are welcome.

location ~ ^/(media).* {
    access_log          off;
    log_not_found       off;
    server_tokens       off;
    autoindex           off;
    sendfile            on;
    sendfile_max_chunk  1m;
    tcp_nopush          on;
    tcp_nodelay         on;
    keepalive_timeout   65;
    add_header          Cache-Control public;
    gzip_static         on;
    gzip_min_length     1000;
    gzip_comp_level     2;
    expires             max;
    fastcgi_hide_header Set-Cookie;
}

Correct way in new versions of nginx

Turn out my first answer to this question was correct at certain time, but it turned into another pitfall - to stay up to date please check Taxing rewrite pitfalls

I have been corrected by many SE users, so the credit goes to them, but more importantly, here is the correct code:

server {
       listen         80;
       server_name    my.domain.com;
       return         301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
}

server {
       listen         443 ssl;
       server_name    my.domain.com;
       # add Strict-Transport-Security to prevent man in the middle attacks
       add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000" always; 

       [....]
}

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