What is Caddy?
Caddy 2 is a powerful, enterprise-ready, open source web server with automatic HTTPS written in Go.
Caddy is a tool in the Web Servers category of a tech stack.
Caddy is an open source tool with 58.3K GitHub stars and 4K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Caddy's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Caddy?
Companies
124 companies reportedly use Caddy in their tech stacks, including Biting Bit, HENNGE Global Internship Program, and commercetools.
Developers
180 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Caddy.
Caddy Integrations
Pros of Caddy
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Caddy's Features
- Static file server
- Reverse proxy
- Load balancing
- Automatic HTTPS
- TLS by default
- Caddyfile
- Config API
- Config adapters
- HTTP/1.1
- HTTP/2
- HTTP/3
- Virtual hosting
- TLS ceritificate auto-renew
- Extensible
- No dependencies
- Fewer moving parts
Caddy Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Caddy?
NGINX
nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 30.46% of the top million busiest sites in Jan 2018.
Traefik
A modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer that makes deploying microservices easy. Traefik integrates with your existing infrastructure components and configures itself automatically and dynamically.
HAProxy
HAProxy (High Availability Proxy) is a free, very fast and reliable solution offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications.
Envoy
Originally built at Lyft, Envoy is a high performance C++ distributed proxy designed for single services and applications, as well as a communication bus and “universal data plane” designed for large microservice “service mesh” architectures.
Apache HTTP Server
The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful and flexible HTTP/1.1 compliant web server. Originally designed as a replacement for the NCSA HTTP Server, it has grown to be the most popular web server on the Internet.
