diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index e06e287..62c0cea 100755
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -3,8 +3,9 @@ WORKDIR /tmp/hugo
 COPY . .
 RUN hugo --gc --minify
 
-FROM nginx:alpine-slim
-WORKDIR  /usr/share/nginx/html
-COPY nginx.conf /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
-COPY --from=build /tmp/hugo/public .
+FROM ghcr.io/static-web-server/static-web-server:2
+COPY sws.toml /etc/sws.toml
+COPY --from=build /tmp/hugo/public /public
+ENV SERVER_CONFIG_FILE=/etc/sws.toml
 EXPOSE 80/tcp
+CMD ["--config-file", "/etc/sws.toml"]
diff --git a/nginx.conf b/nginx.conf
deleted file mode 100644
index 95b3cf2..0000000
--- a/nginx.conf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,70 +0,0 @@
-# auto detects a good number of processes to run
-worker_processes auto;
-
-#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 1024;
-    # 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"';
-
-    gzip on;
-    gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6]\.(?!.*SV1)";
-    gzip_vary on;
-    gzip_proxied any;
-    gzip_comp_level 9;
-    gzip_buffers 10 8k;
-    gzip_http_version 1.1;
-    gzip_types text/plain text/css text/xml text/javascript image/webp image/svg+xml image/x-icon application/javascript application/x-javascript application/json application/xml application/xml+rss;
-
-    server {
-        # listen on port 80
-        listen 80;
-        # save logs here
-        access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log compression;
-
-        # where's the root dir
-        root /usr/share/nginx/html;
-        # what file to serve 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 $uri/ /index.html;
-        }
-
-        # Media: images, icons, video, audio, HTC
-        location ~* \.(?:jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|cur|gz|svg|svgz|mp4|ogg|ogv|webm|htc|webp)$ {
-          expires 1y;
-          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;
-        }
-    }
-}
diff --git a/sws.toml b/sws.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..da50e69
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sws.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+[general]
+
+#### Server
+
+# Listen on all interfaces, port 80 (matches previous nginx setup)
+host = "0.0.0.0"
+port = 80
+
+# Root directory of the static site (Hugo `public/` output)
+root = "/public"
+
+# Number of worker threads (0 = auto-detect based on CPU cores)
+threads-multiplier = 1
+
+# Log level
+log-level = "info"
+
+#### Performance / caching
+
+# On-the-fly gzip, brotli and zstd compression (replaces nginx `gzip on`)
+compression = true
+
+# Serve pre-compressed .gz/.br/.zst files from disk when present
+compression-static = true
+
+# Emit Cache-Control + ETag headers with sensible per-content-type defaults.
+# SWS applies long-lived caching to static assets (images, css, js, fonts)
+# and short/no-cache to HTML, replacing the manual nginx `expires 1y` blocks.
+cache-control-headers = true
+
+#### Routing
+
+# SPA-style fallback: serve index.html when a path is not found on disk,
+# mirroring the previous nginx `try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html`.
+page-fallback = "/public/index.html"
+
+#### Security
+
+# Opinionated security headers (safe defaults for a static site)
+security-headers = true
+
+# Health endpoint at /health for container/K8s liveness probes
+health = true