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Anybody using Caddy as a reverse proxy or a webserver?
sreekanth850
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Following this project for sometime, but never tried. Anybody benchmarked this against OLS or NGINX?
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All the way with nginx. Don't see any reason using something else.
Automated SSL for custom hostnames in reverse proxy mode. Which NGINX doesn't have. Currently We are using Bunny pullzone for managing this through automated API calls when a client signs up, but they don't support websockets yet. So thinking of testing caddy.
caddy is cool toy, when performance and quality not important.
OLS - bugged shit.
nginx - top.
Litespeed = top.
apache - not really good.
Using NGINX, and as i mentioned earlier caddy to use as a reverse proxy to server ssl automated for clients hostnames.
yoursunny.com is served by Caddy
Ah i saw it. playing around with caddy now. its cool to get automated ssl without any certbot.
There's a good comparison of Caddy vs NGINX performance here: https://blog.tjll.net/reverse-proxy-hot-dog-eating-contest-caddy-vs-nginx/
I prefer the configuration syntax and auto SSL convenience for Caddy and use it as a reverse proxy for most smaller sites (< 200req/s) but for high traffic sites I still use NGINX for now due to the improved reverse proxy performance.
Using Caddy cuz it is shipped with Convoy: https://github.com/ConvoyPanel/panel
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Works well and fast
Generally I prefer nginx, but for containerized infrastructure Caddy with https://github.com/lucaslorentz/caddy-docker-proxy much more convenient comparing to nginx.
Will check this.
This is something new will look into this.
I use Traefik as reverse proxy for container. No need any other plugin to work with container natively.
The additional plugin available to enrich its functionality such as WAF, but I never tried the plugin yet
isnt this like https://traefik.io/traefik/ much older and production ready?
Traefik looks like over-engineering for my current usage, I am not really a pro in containerization.
you're welcome for the affiliate conversion
is this only for docker containers?
woah, thank you for nice link!
I'm using caddy as a reverse proxy for all my vps'.
I used caddy as a Web server and reverse proxy for all of my personal stuff, I like the simplicity. Not sure about production usage thougb
This looks interesting.
Thank you for sharing!
I'm using it on 7 sites (production). Performance has been good and problem free so far.
OLS is my life.
OLS is not a silverbullet for all usecase. It can be good for wordpress but not for everything. Not for my use case atleast, where i have a .net core Web API server running on a kestrel server which is served by a NGINX Reverse proxy. And a Next JS front end APP. And i need a service for front end app, to provide custom hostnames. Currently i use bunny pullzone for each customer (instead of AWS cloud front), it points to the next js APP and issue SSL for customer domain added. Looking to replace bunny with a Reverse proxy. I think OLS is nowhere useful for this kind.
Good to know this. Now playing with it, reverse proxy is an issue, i need to setup custom headers for each domain. lets dig some more deep.
Yea, need a long testing before going to production, but i feel like its a good option for offloading SSL certificates.
It's a great server.
We have been using it in production to provide cname option across multiple of our services by tightly integrating it's api into our service for over an year.
Zero issues.
Only thing we don't like about it is, there is no ui, that works with it, and their master slave configuration can drive you mad.
I've been using Caddy serving 30k ips per day already.
Nginx Proxy Manager . Does SSL etc... It is mostly used for home labs but can be used for other things. It is free and super easy to use.
I think so. Using traefik since version 1.5 iirc. No usability issue so far. I use it for any reverse-proxy in container needs, in production also. Works great including on kubernetes. It also have clear business model as a company.
What I hate about it is when migrating kubernetes ingress from version 1 to version 2. It is like learning new things because they rewrite the software design. But for docker compose use, no problem.
The documentation can be complicated at first, but after getting used about how traefik works, it is pretty good enough.
nginx is the best!
a 512mb-ram VPS running certbot can support a hundred of vps for that many number of domains. A path unit systemd service on these vps can help to reload nginx whenever new ssl keys received from the 512mb-ram one.