[Madison]

apparently Caddy has very easy SSL management because the server integrated with Lets Encrypt already, is this helping SlickStack?

[Jose]

Related GitHub issue:

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

[Dylan]

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.

[Henry]

Caddy is also written in Go, which would be a big programming change

[Sarah]

do you actually have to know Go language to use Caddy though….

[Bobby]

do you actually have to know Go language to use Caddy

Not extensively I suppose.

[Grace]

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).

[Kimberly]

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…

[Jonathan]

Is Nginx Unit going to replace the normal Nginx server?

[Sandra]

is Nginx Unit similar to Caddy?

[Keith]

> 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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