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would SlickStack ever consider using Caddy not Nginx

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  • March 7, 2023 at 9:18 am #4458
    Madison
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    apparently Caddy has very easy SSL management because the server integrated with Lets Encrypt already, is this helping SlickStack?

    March 7, 2023 at 9:22 am #4459
    Jose
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    Related GitHub issue:

    https://github.com/littlebizzy/slickstack/issues/184

    March 7, 2023 at 9:30 am #4460
    Dylan
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    TLDR

    For now SlickStack is not going to consider switching to Caddy, because the main selling points (integrated SSL, and more automated setup) pretty much do the same things that SlickStack does, but with fewer customization options.

    So it doesn’t really make sense for SlickStack to use Caddy.

    I think Caddy makes more sense for small projects where they want to configure their own stack from scratch, or with some specific feature, and not really a multi-purpose stack script like SlickStack that is focused on scaling traffic, SEO and security signals, etc.

    March 7, 2023 at 9:45 am #4461
    Henry
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    Caddy is also written in Go, which would be a big programming change

    March 7, 2023 at 12:31 pm #4462
    Sarah
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    do you actually have to know Go language to use Caddy though….

    March 7, 2023 at 3:05 pm #4472
    Bobby
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    do you actually have to know Go language to use Caddy

    Not extensively I suppose.

    March 8, 2023 at 11:48 am #4477
    Grace
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    Caddy doesn’t scale as well as Nginx, maybe it doesn’t matter to small sites but eventually there might be things you want to achieve (and can’t) when using Caddy.

    More stuff

    https://blog.tjll.net/reverse-proxy-hot-dog-eating-contest-caddy-vs-nginx/#summary

    Nginx will fail by refusing or dropping connections, Caddy will fail by slowing everything down. Is one better than the other? For certain use-cases, almost certainly. Some folks will want fail-fast, while others will want to keep accepting connections at all costs. The key point is that there is a difference (frankly I think my preference is for fail-fast).

    March 8, 2023 at 11:50 am #4478
    Kimberly
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    I can understand the desire for making Caddy, waiting years and years for Nginx to evolve on certain things. But I just don’t think Caddy really checks all the right boxes…

    March 8, 2023 at 11:52 am #4479
    Jonathan
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    Is Nginx Unit going to replace the normal Nginx server?

    July 6, 2023 at 9:31 pm #6536
    Sandra
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    is Nginx Unit similar to Caddy?

    May 30, 2024 at 7:56 am #25103
    Keith
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    > is Nginx Unit similar to Caddy?

    no… Caddy is written in Go, with Go modules. Nginx UNIT is JSON based config, with RESTful API so it’s not really similar at all.

    Nginx UNIT is arguably much more lightweight. But not very popular (yet)

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