diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 5691ec6..f812576 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,22 +1,18 @@
-FROM nginx:1.9.12
+FROM nginx:alpine
 MAINTAINER Jason Wilder mail@jasonwilder.com
 
 # Install wget and install/updates certificates
-RUN apt-get update \
- && apt-get install -y -q --no-install-recommends \
+RUN apk add --no-cache --virtual .run-deps \
     ca-certificates \
-    wget \
- && apt-get clean \
- && rm -r /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+    bash
 
 # Configure Nginx and apply fix for very long server names
-RUN echo "daemon off;" >> /etc/nginx/nginx.conf \
- && sed -i 's/^http {/&\n    server_names_hash_bucket_size 128;/g' /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
+COPY nginx.conf /etc/nginx/
+RUN mkdir /etc/nginx/conf.d
 
 # Install Forego
-ADD https://github.com/jwilder/forego/releases/download/v0.16.1/forego /usr/local/bin/forego
-RUN chmod u+x /usr/local/bin/forego
-
+RUN wget https://github.com/jwilder/forego/releases/download/v0.16.1/forego -O /usr/local/bin/forego \
+    && chmod u+x /usr/local/bin/forego
 ENV DOCKER_GEN_VERSION 0.7.0
 
 RUN wget https://github.com/jwilder/docker-gen/releases/download/$DOCKER_GEN_VERSION/docker-gen-linux-amd64-$DOCKER_GEN_VERSION.tar.gz \
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 213a441..91e8987 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 update-dependencies:
 	docker pull jwilder/docker-gen:0.7.0
-	docker pull nginx:1.9.12
+	docker pull nginx:alpine
 	docker pull python:3
 	docker pull rancher/socat-docker:latest
 	docker pull appropriate/curl:latest
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d277421..98f782a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-![nginx 1.9.12](https://img.shields.io/badge/nginx-1.9.12-brightgreen.svg) ![License MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-blue.svg) [![Build](https://circleci.com/gh/jwilder/nginx-proxy.svg?&style=shield&circle-token=2da3ee844076a47371bd45da81cf27409ca7306a)](https://circleci.com/gh/jwilder/nginx-proxy) [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/jwilder/nginx-proxy.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/jwilder/nginx-proxy)
+![nginx alpine](https://img.shields.io/badge/nginx-alpine-brightgreen.svg) ![License MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-blue.svg) [![Build](https://circleci.com/gh/jwilder/nginx-proxy.svg?&style=shield&circle-token=2da3ee844076a47371bd45da81cf27409ca7306a)](https://circleci.com/gh/jwilder/nginx-proxy) [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/jwilder/nginx-proxy.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/jwilder/nginx-proxy)
 
 nginx-proxy sets up a container running nginx and [docker-gen][1].  docker-gen generates reverse proxy configs for nginx and reloads nginx when containers are started and stopped.
 
diff --git a/nginx.conf b/nginx.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f16c604
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nginx.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+
+daemon off;
+
+#user  nobody;
+worker_processes  1;
+
+#error_log  logs/error.log;
+#error_log  logs/error.log  notice;
+#error_log  logs/error.log  info;
+
+#pid        logs/nginx.pid;
+
+
+events {
+    worker_connections  1024;
+}
+
+
+http {
+    server_names_hash_bucket_size 128;
+
+    include       mime.types;
+    default_type  application/octet-stream;
+
+    #log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
+    #                  '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
+    #                  '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
+
+    #access_log  logs/access.log  main;
+
+    sendfile        on;
+    #tcp_nopush     on;
+
+    #keepalive_timeout  0;
+    keepalive_timeout  65;
+
+    #gzip  on;
+
+    include conf.d/*.conf;
+}