diff --git a/logrotate/ninegate b/logrotate/ninegate
index cd7bbd12..268cbb73 100644
--- a/logrotate/ninegate
+++ b/logrotate/ninegate
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 /var/www/html/ninegate/var/logs/*.log {
-   rotate 5
-   daily
-   su www-data
+    maxsize 50M
+    daily
+    missingok
+    rotate 5
+    compress
+    notifempty
+    nocreate
+    su www-data
 }
 
diff --git a/src/ninegate-1.0/app/config/config.yml b/src/ninegate-1.0/app/config/config.yml
index d02ffb2c..002c8a93 100644
--- a/src/ninegate-1.0/app/config/config.yml
+++ b/src/ninegate-1.0/app/config/config.yml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ monolog:
             type:  rotating_file
             path:  '%kernel.logs_dir%/%kernel.environment%.log'
             level: error
-            max_files: 10
+            max_files: 5
 
 framework:
     #esi: ~