Something I worked on but never released was a series of posts/small book that was about actually using Apache (one could write the same for Nginx). There are

Something I worked on but never released was a series of posts/small book that was about actually using Apache (one could write the same for Nginx). There are (metaphorical) $20 bills lying all over the ground in small, medium, and ever large applications' server settings. Or at least that's my experience, that usually someone puts in the conf file from a tutorial somewhere and they're off to the races. Maybe a few things get tweaked if there's a problem. Fortunately a lot of distros have somewhat better defaults now but it's still often easy wins on performance, logging, or security to be found.