> The Ultimate Server
> makes your sites more secure, more reliable, and more scalable than any other solution.
Is this an alternative to nginx or something?
A stand-out feature has been ACME support built-in, and it’s a fairly capable reverse proxy. I’ve seen organizations use Caddy to provision certificates for customer domains at scale with very good results.
Personally, I much prefer the way caddy does configuration / plugins (as someone reasonably conversant in how nginx does those things) - comparable to "sysv init scripts vs systemd unit files".
As a note, Caddy is one of those tools which hits the 80-90% of functionality with 50% of the complexity.
For both my homelab and hobby projects it just works. Its configuration is sane and well documented.
I highly recommend giving it a try.
There still remains this simple to reproduce bug where the page doesn't load of you use the full domain name of a site.
Still, only you and one other person with a similar grudge have ever complained about it (we've never had any github issues opened about it in years, neither on our forums) and nobody who cares has attempted to solve it with code changes.
bananas
why is this your hill to die on?
Caddy has been great!
Automatic HTTPS, multiple domains, proxying specific routes to local services, etc etc, managed by one extremely legible config file.
I've had literally one service failure over that period, and it was my own error after running upgrades of the droplet's operating system.
Highly recommended.
Congrats to Mike on growing the project to the point where he can responsibly take a hand off the wheel now and then. And thank you!
cr125rider•3h ago