These are a couple of quick notes on how we're gzipping minified css/js files in Laravel Mix (based on Webpack 4) given I couldn't find any real discussion/solution to it online. It's a bit of a hack - let me know if there's a better way! (It's also based on our setup, so you'll need to modify to meet your own needs).

(This is a work in progress - I may find a better solution in which case i'll update this gist).

For this configuration you can use web server you like, i decided, because i work mostly with it to use nginx.

Generally, properly configured nginx can handle up to 400K to 500K requests per second (clustered), most what i saw is 50K to 80K (non-clustered) requests per second and 30% CPU load, course, this was 2 x Intel Xeon with HyperThreading enabled, but it can work without problem on slower machines.

You must understand that this config is used in testing environment and not in production so you will need to find a way to implement most of those features best possible for your servers.