Take the 2-minute tour ×  Because Nginx requires the geoip_
directives to go into the main http{ } block of the nginx.conf
file, does that mean the geoip data is being pulled for every
single request?  In other words, does NginX look up the geoip
data for ALL of the requests coming in, even for those not
needing the data?  share|improve this question Also interested
in an actual answer on this question. Adding this something
running PHP is little overhead I assume, but also looking up
every request for a site serving static content feels
uneccesary. But how to avoid if the geoip directives must be
specified in the http block rather than in the server block? – 
stefpet Mar 26 '12 at 20:00  2 Answers 2  Nginx parses and loads
geoip data into memory once the config file only on (re)start or
SIGHUP.  What about expanding $geoip_* variables - I'm not sure,
but hope they calculates only when required (in "if" or "log" or
"map" or whatever construction). Anyway, it doesn't reread and
reload whole dat the file each r