Nginx is optimized for serving static content, while the proxying of large responses might be the opposite of that
(see https://serverfault.com/q/587386).
-Download a snap shot of the gitea source repository to `/path/to/gitea/`.
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-We are only interested in the `public/` directory and you can delete the rest.
+Download a snapshot of the Gitea source repository to `/path/to/gitea/`.
+After this, run `make webpack` in the repository directory to generate the static resources. We are only interested in the `public/` directory for this task, so you can delete the rest.
+(You will need to have [Node with npm](https://nodejs.org/en/download/) and `make` installed to generate the static resources)
Depending on the scale of your user base, you might want to split the traffic to two distinct servers,
or use a cdn for the static files.