diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index adbb97d..b7d511e 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
-data/
\ No newline at end of file
+data/
+*.log
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/config.json b/config.json
index 3ca3b0c..dc9d7f1 100644
--- a/config.json
+++ b/config.json
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
-  "base_url": "http://localhost:8080/s",
+  "base_url": "https://xcel.me/s",
   "api_key": "change-this-secret-key",
   "host": "0.0.0.0",
   "port": 8080,
@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@
   "retention_days": 0,
   "min_short_length": 6,
   "max_short_length": 32,
-  "max_url_length": 2048,
+  "max_url_length": 131072,
   "max_retention_days": 3650,
-  "rate_limit_requests": 60,
+  "rate_limit_requests": 10,
   "rate_limit_window": 60
 }
 
diff --git a/data/.gitignore b/data/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3997bea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/data/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+*.db
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index e523ef7..e2ca5f0 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ services:
     working_dir: /app
     command: ["python", "-u", "urlshort.py", "config.json"]
     ports:
-      - "8080:8080"
+      - "127.0.0.1:18082:8080"
     volumes:
       - ./urlshort.py:/app/urlshort.py:ro
       - ./config.json:/app/config.json:ro
diff --git a/nginx.conf b/nginx.conf
index 2d7a98b..0e613a1 100644
--- a/nginx.conf
+++ b/nginx.conf
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ location ^~ /s/static/ {
 # --- Proxy everything else under /s/ to the Python backend ---
 # Covers: /s/api/shorten, /s/api/urls, /s/api/lookup, /s/<code> redirects
 location /s/ {
-    proxy_pass         http://urlshort:8080;
+    proxy_pass         http://127.0.0.1:18082;
     proxy_http_version 1.1;
 
     proxy_set_header   Host              $host;