Show HN: Caddy 2

#1

Post by mholt » Mon, May 04, 2020, 5:07 PM UTC

Re: Show HN: Caddy 2

#2

Post by sqs » Mon, May 04, 2020, 5:24 PM UTC

Awesome! We use Caddy at Sourcegraph (https://sourcegraph.com/search?q=caddy+repo:%5Egithub%5C.com...) and love it. Caddy makes it much easier to run our app in local dev (with HTTPS and other nice things).

Re: Show HN: Caddy 2

#3

Post by nikivi » Mon, May 04, 2020, 5:47 PM UTC

At what point does one use Caddy over writing a server with few lines in Go/Node. A bit confused on the use case of Caddy.

Re: Show HN: Caddy 2

#4

Post by hairyhenderson » Mon, May 04, 2020, 5:49 PM UTC

nikivi wrote: post #3

At what point does one use Caddy over writing a server with few lines in Go/Node. A bit confused on the use case of Caddy.

Use Caddy wherever you'd otherwise use Apache HTTPD, nginx, IIS, traefik, Kong, etc...

Re: Show HN: Caddy 2

#5

Post by gfosco » Mon, May 04, 2020, 5:49 PM UTC

I really like Caddy and use it for general side projects. Super simple setup, handles all the LetsEncrypt certificates for me, can be running different apps on different paths.

Re: Show HN: Caddy 2

#6

Post by dubcanada » Mon, May 04, 2020, 5:50 PM UTC

nikivi wrote: post #3

At what point does one use Caddy over writing a server with few lines in Go/Node. A bit confused on the use case of Caddy.

It's comparable to Nginx and Apache, not a Go/Node http/https server.

Re: Show HN: Caddy 2

#7

Post by someguy101010 » Mon, May 04, 2020, 5:55 PM UTC

EDIT: No more Telemetry nvm

Re: Show HN: Caddy 2

#8

Post by guillem_lefait » Mon, May 04, 2020, 5:55 PM UTC

gfosco wrote: post #5

I really like Caddy and use it for general side projects. Super simple setup, handles all the LetsEncrypt certificates for me, can be running different apps on different paths.

Same here. Using it for all "small" projects, no idea on what to expect on large ones though.

Re: Show HN: Caddy 2

#9

Post by mholt » Mon, May 04, 2020, 5:56 PM UTC

someguy101010 wrote: post #7

EDIT: No more Telemetry nvm

It's out. The server was shut down months ago and v2 doesn't have a telemetry client at all.

Re: Show HN: Caddy 2

#10

Post by mholt » Mon, May 04, 2020, 5:56 PM UTC

guillem_lefait wrote: post #8

gfosco wrote: post #5

I really like Caddy and use it for general side projects. Super simple setup, handles all the LetsEncrypt certificates for me, can be running different apps on different paths.

Same here. Using it for all "small" projects, no idea on what to expect on large ones though.

We have several companies using it for tens of thousands of their customer sites. It's the only server we know of that can handle hundreds of thousands of certificates efficiently!