Why you should use Caddy as your webserver

5 years ago medium.com

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emember the times when the term “Webserver” was almost exclusively synonymous to the words “Apache” and “NGINX”? With tools like Docker and Kubernetes rising in the web industry there is a growing need for more small, leightweight but still flexible web server and reverse proxy solutions with features like dynamic configuration and load balancing.

The Caddyfile is the config adapter for the average human, it is easy to understand and dead simple to use.Let’s pretend that you just rented a virtual server instance somewhere and have setup the Caddy webserver using the package manager of your choice.

Compare this to the default nginx or apache configuration if you want to know why I am so enthusiastic about it!).

You crafted a cool Angular/React/Vue.js App and nice API in the programming language of your choice (Go, .NET Core, etc. ).

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