diff --git a/support/doc/production.md b/support/doc/production.md
index 0ee275e9e..4a8c488ee 100644
--- a/support/doc/production.md
+++ b/support/doc/production.md
@@ -142,6 +142,8 @@ $ sudo pkg install dehydrated
 
 ### TCP/IP Tuning
 
+A lot of your instance's raw performance is dependent on a properly tuned machine and more specifically, reverse-proxy. We provide support for Nginx and spent a lot of time putting sane defaults in it, but we strongly advise you to follow up with instructions in https://github.com/denji/nginx-tuning as needed.
+
 **On Linux**
 
 ```
diff --git a/support/nginx/peertube b/support/nginx/peertube
index ceb434390..6d1c89459 100644
--- a/support/nginx/peertube
+++ b/support/nginx/peertube
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 # Minimum Nginx version required:  1.13.0 (released Apr 25, 2017)
+# Please check your Nginx installation features the following modules via 'nginx -V':
+# STANDARD HTTP MODULES: Core, Map, Proxy, Rewrite.
+# OPTIONAL HTTP MODULES: Gzip, Headers, HTTP/2, Log, Real IP, SSL, Thread Pool, Upstream.
+# THIRD PARTY MODULES:   None.
 
 # Uncomment in production to redirect HTTP to HTTPS. Leave commented for docker-compose.
 #server {
@@ -144,11 +148,6 @@ server {
   tcp_nopush                on; # send headers in one piece
   tcp_nodelay               on; # don't buffer data sent, good for small data bursts in real time
 
-  open_file_cache           max=2000 inactive=5m; # default is no cache
-  open_file_cache_valid     2m; # default is 60s
-  open_file_cache_min_uses  2; # default is 1
-  open_file_cache_errors    on;
-
   # If you have a small /var/lib partition, it could be interesting to store temp nginx uploads in a different place
   # See https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#client_body_temp_path
   #client_body_temp_path /var/www/peertube/storage/nginx/;