diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index e8dfef2..97781c3 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 FROM nginx:alpine
-COPY public /var/www
+COPY ./public /var/www
 COPY nginx.conf /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
 EXPOSE 80
 ENTRYPOINT ["nginx","-g","daemon off;"]
diff --git a/nginx.conf b/nginx.conf
index 5bd1e5c..d56813d 100644
--- a/nginx.conf
+++ b/nginx.conf
@@ -1,37 +1,61 @@
-events {}
-http {
-	include			/etc/nginx/mime.types;
-	default_type	application/octet-stream;
-	log_format compression '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] '
-		'"$request" $status $upstream_addr '
-		'"$http_referer" "$http_user_agent"';
+# auto detects a good number of processes to run
+worker_processes auto;
 
-	server {
-		listen 80;
-		access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log compression;
-
-		root /var/www;
-		index index.html index.htm;
-
-		location / {
-			try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
-		}
-
-		location ~* \.(?:jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|cur|gz|svg|svgz|mp4|ogg|ogv|webm|htc)$ {
-			expires 1M;
-			access_log off;
-			add_header Cache-Control "public";
-		}
-
-		location ~* \.(?:css|js)$ {
-			try_files $uri =404;
-			expires 1y;
-			access_log off;
-			add_header Cache-Control "public";
-		}
-
-		location ~ ^.+\..+$ {
-			try_files $uri =404;
-		}
-	}
+#Provides the configuration file context in which the directives that affect connection processing are specified.
+events {
+    # Sets the maximum number of simultaneous connections that can be opened by a worker process.
+    worker_connections 8000;
+    # Tells the worker to accept multiple connections at a time
+    multi_accept on;
+}
+
+
+http {
+    # what times to include
+    include       /etc/nginx/mime.types;
+    # what is the default one
+    default_type  application/octet-stream;
+
+    # Sets the path, format, and configuration for a buffered log write
+    log_format compression '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] '
+        '"$request" $status $upstream_addr '
+        '"$http_referer" "$http_user_agent"';
+
+    server {
+        # listen on port 80
+        listen 80;
+        # save logs here
+        access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log compression;
+
+        # where the root here
+        root /var/www;
+        # what file to server as index
+        index index.html index.htm;
+
+        location / {
+            # First attempt to serve request as file, then
+            # as directory, then fall back to redirecting to index.html
+            try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
+        }
+
+        # Media: images, icons, video, audio, HTC
+        location ~* \.(?:jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|cur|gz|svg|svgz|mp4|ogg|ogv|webm|htc)$ {
+          expires 1M;
+          access_log off;
+          add_header Cache-Control "public";
+        }
+
+        # Javascript and CSS files
+        location ~* \.(?:css|js)$ {
+            try_files $uri =404;
+            expires 1y;
+            access_log off;
+            add_header Cache-Control "public";
+        }
+
+        # Any route containing a file extension (e.g. /devicesfile.js)
+        location ~ ^.+\..+$ {
+            try_files $uri =404;
+        }
+    }
 }