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So has anyone used Caddy Webserver?
Heya,
Just wondering if anyone could give me some feedback on Caddy Webserver ( https://caddyserver.com/ ) and its performance. I am still hesitant using it. While automatic HTTPS and the HTTP2 feature sound cool, I am wondering how far you can go optimization whise. I am currently using apache2 and there re alot of modules I can activate to speed up my pageload which obviously wont be available for Caddy...
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There was a long thread about this a little while ago. (sorry, gotta go, but it should be easy to find)
Here's a recent, unsolicited review: https://denbeke.be/blog/servers/two-months-ago-i-started-to-serve-the-web-like-its-2016-and-im-still-loving-caddy-migrating-from-nginx-to-caddy-server/
I have heard praise of Caddy's performance many times (that's just one tweet I remember from recently). In my own benchmarking it's faster than Apache at serving static files. I don't publish the results because everyone's environment and needs are different and I don't want to mislead or give the wrong impression. But you are certainly welcome to try it out for yourself or run your own tests if you know what you're doing.
Here's a large thread but most of it is about an older version of Caddy.
I guarantee, for serving static files, Caddy won't be your bottleneck. Usually it's system tuning where things go wrong.