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Caddy vs NGINX Unit: What are the differences?
Caddy: The HTTP/2 Web Server with Automatic HTTPS. Caddy is a production-ready open-source web server that is fast, easy to use, and makes you more productive. HTTP/2 and HTTPS by default; NGINX Unit: A dynamic web and application server with Go, PHP, Python, Perl, and Ruby support. NGINX Unit is a dynamic web application server, designed to run applications in multiple languages. Unit is lightweight, polyglot, and dynamically configured via API. The design of the server allows reconfiguration of specific application parameters as needed by the engineering or operations.
Caddy and NGINX Unit can be categorized as "Web Servers" tools.
Some of the features offered by Caddy are:
- Easy configuration with the Caddyfile
- Automatic HTTPS on by default (via Let's Encrypt)
- HTTP/2 by default
On the other hand, NGINX Unit provides the following key features:
- Fully dynamic reconfiguration using RESTful JSON API
- Multiple application languages and versions can run simultaneously
- Dynamic application processes management (coming soon)
Caddy and NGINX Unit are both open source tools. Caddy with 22.7K GitHub stars and 1.79K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than NGINX Unit with 1.98K GitHub stars and 141 GitHub forks.
inFeedo, Put.io, and Centra are some of the popular companies that use NGINX Unit, whereas Caddy is used by RELEX Solutions, AresRPG, and Fresh8 Gaming. NGINX Unit has a broader approval, being mentioned in 11 company stacks & 8 developers stacks; compared to Caddy, which is listed in 14 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.
Pros of Caddy
- Easy HTTP/2 Server Push6
- Sane config file syntax6
- Builtin HTTPS4
- Letsencrypt support2
- Runtime config API2
Pros of NGINX Unit
- PHP3
- Python2
- Golang2
- Multilang2
- Node.js1
- Ruby1
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Cons of Caddy
- New kid3