Webfaction has been doing it that way since roughly 2008, initially introduced as a way to speed up serving of static files. https://blog.webfaction.com/2008/1

Webfaction has been doing it that way since roughly 2008, initially introduced as a way to speed up serving of static files. https://blog.webfaction.com/2008/12/a-little-holiday-present-10000-reqssec-with-nginx-2/ https://blog.webfaction.com/2008/12/a-little-holiday-present...