Caddy – The HTTP/2 Web Server with Automatic HTTPS
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Caddy – The HTTP/2 Web Server with Automatic HTTPS
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Re: Caddy – The HTTP/2 Web Server with Automatic HTTPS
#2As someone who is very very new to hosting their own services, this was an absolute piece of cake to set up. My first time dealing with reverse proxies and it took less than an hour to get going.
Re: Caddy – The HTTP/2 Web Server with Automatic HTTPS
#3As someone who is very very new to hosting their own services, this was an absolute piece of cake to set up. My first time dealing with reverse proxies and it took less than an hour to get going.
Good to know! As someone who's been called a senior SRE (I hate titles) and has been building platforms for years, it's great to see high quality software enabling new comers like your self to the field. Welcome! :-)
Re: Caddy – The HTTP/2 Web Server with Automatic HTTPS
#4What's interesting is that it's the first web server not focused on speed or performance but on the user experience. I love nginx, but I had huge headaches configuring it when migrating php apps with huge htaccess rules to nginx.
The terms of the license do not seem super clear though.
Re: Caddy – The HTTP/2 Web Server with Automatic HTTPS
#5They make it quite hard to find out, but here it is:
> Caddy obtains certificates for you automatically using Let's Encrypt.
Not sure why that is not stated front and centre. It's a good idea.
Re: Caddy – The HTTP/2 Web Server with Automatic HTTPS
#6That's interesting! I wonder how it scales relative to, say, nginx.
Re: Caddy – The HTTP/2 Web Server with Automatic HTTPS
#7When Caddy was first released I tried, and failed, to get Caddy to serve an https site locally. Is that possible now? The docs[1] hint that it could be if I add an entry to my hosts file pointing an IP address of, say, a Docker container, as that wouldn't technically be localhost or an IP address. It doesn't explicitly say it's possible though. Adding something to the tutorials would be immensely helpful if it does work.
Re: Caddy – The HTTP/2 Web Server with Automatic HTTPS
#8What's interesting is that it's the first web server not focused on speed or performance but on the user experience. I love nginx, but I had huge headaches configuring it when migrating php apps with huge htaccess rules to nginx. The terms of the license do not seem super clear though.
> I had huge headaches configuring it when migrating php apps with huge htaccess rules to nginx
I also had this issue whenever I did migrations between different web applications that used different URL structures. To preserve my sanity, I now do the redirects in the application level.
I predict nginx will get a lot of competition from servers and applications written in Rust. Until then, it's viable as a reverse proxy and serves static files really great.
Re: Caddy – The HTTP/2 Web Server with Automatic HTTPS
#9What's interesting is that it's the first web server not focused on speed or performance but on the user experience. I love nginx, but I had huge headaches configuring it when migrating php apps with huge htaccess rules to nginx. The terms of the license do not seem super clear though.
I've been putting off deploying one of my side projects because I'm afraid that I'll mess up an existing site if I touch the nginx config again.
Caddy looks promising and simpler. Might have to take a look this weekend.
Re: Caddy – The HTTP/2 Web Server with Automatic HTTPS
#10What's interesting is that it's the first web server not focused on speed or performance but on the user experience. I love nginx, but I had huge headaches configuring it when migrating php apps with huge htaccess rules to nginx. The terms of the license do not seem super clear though.
> I had huge headaches configuring it when migrating php apps with huge htaccess rules to nginx I also had this issue whenever I did migrations between different web applications that used different URL structures. To preserve my sanity, I now do the redirects in the application level. I predict nginx will get a lot of competition from servers and applications written in Rust. Until then, it's viable as a reverse pr…
nginx has a huge headstart though, it's stable, it's fast, has lots of modules, etc.
I'm open to competition in the field, I'm not sure the competition will emerge as fast as people think (just like competition for other well-established software bricks in general).