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Hi mholt, I have used Caddy almost since you started it. Great product! My issue with this is that there isn't an affordable license for small non-profit websi

by Touche 9y ago

Hi mholt, I have used Caddy almost since you started it. Great product! My issue with this is that there isn't an affordable license for small non-profit websites (like a person's personal website). I'd gladly pay if it were affordable, but it is not. So now I have to choose between incurring the wasted bandwidth of this header to my users, or choosing a different web server.

mholt 9y ago
Thanks for your feedback. You could build from source, that's free. If you need a commercial license, contact us at sales@lightcodelabs.com and we'll see about working something out for you!
- derefr 9y ago
  Even the time required to negotiate a custom commercial license costs more than the license is worth (and/or more than the switching cost) for most personal users. I was using Caddy because I don't have time in my day to configure Nginx; but I also don't have time in my day to build Caddy from source to repackage+deploy it to my infrastructure. So back to Nginx it is. What I would have time in my day for is a standardized one-time PayPal payment in exchange for a commercial license authorizing me to use Caddy for a site with traffic not exceeding [X amt any commercial site would quickly hit]. You know, like buying an SMB license of any other on-prem web-service software.
  - jimjimjim 9y ago
    you don't have time to recompile a software package but you do have time to read hackernews? is time the right word here?
    - derefr 9y ago
      My job pays me units of money in exchange for a finite time per day spent dedicated to advancing their goals. There are more potential things to do for the company than fit into the time they pay me to spend; and I'm not going to work for free past that time just to fit all those things in. Therefore, I have to optimize—to choose which things are most worth the company's time. Compiling and configuring software packages are rather low on that list (which shouldn't be surprising, given that I'm a programmer, not an ops person.) I read HN on my own time.
      - bschwindHN 9y ago
        In the time it probably took you to type that comment, I compiled caddy from source. I've never even used it before, but in general Go programs are very easy to build.
        shakna 9y ago
        > but in general Go programs are very easy to build. So long as you organise all your code according to GOPATH. You can't just compile it in your Downloads folder.
        bschwindHN 9y ago
        Yes I think the GOPATH is bullshit but it's also not hard to move files from one directory to another.
bschwindHN 9y ago
> incurring the wasted bandwidth of this header to my users Can you attach a concrete number to this? I think I found the example header and it's around 91 bytes, right? How many requests do you need to service before this becomes a real issue? You could also just build it from source...

by Touche 9y ago

mholt 9y ago

Thanks for your feedback. You could build from source, that's free. If you need a commercial license, contact us at sales@lightcodelabs.com and we'll see about working something out for you!

derefr 9y ago
Even the time required to negotiate a custom commercial license costs more than the license is worth (and/or more than the switching cost) for most personal users. I was using Caddy because I don't have time in my day to configure Nginx; but I also don't have time in my day to build Caddy from source to repackage+deploy it to my infrastructure. So back to Nginx it is. What I would have time in my day for is a standardized one-time PayPal payment in exchange for a commercial license authorizing me to use Caddy for a site with traffic not exceeding [X amt any commercial site would quickly hit]. You know, like buying an SMB license of any other on-prem web-service software.
- jimjimjim 9y ago
  you don't have time to recompile a software package but you do have time to read hackernews? is time the right word here?
  - derefr 9y ago
    My job pays me units of money in exchange for a finite time per day spent dedicated to advancing their goals. There are more potential things to do for the company than fit into the time they pay me to spend; and I'm not going to work for free past that time just to fit all those things in. Therefore, I have to optimize—to choose which things are most worth the company's time. Compiling and configuring software packages are rather low on that list (which shouldn't be surprising, given that I'm a programmer, not an ops person.) I read HN on my own time.
    - bschwindHN 9y ago
      In the time it probably took you to type that comment, I compiled caddy from source. I've never even used it before, but in general Go programs are very easy to build.
      - shakna 9y ago
        > but in general Go programs are very easy to build. So long as you organise all your code according to GOPATH. You can't just compile it in your Downloads folder.
        bschwindHN 9y ago
        Yes I think the GOPATH is bullshit but it's also not hard to move files from one directory to another.

bschwindHN 9y ago

> incurring the wasted bandwidth of this header to my users Can you attach a concrete number to this? I think I found the example header and it's around 91 bytes, right? How many requests do you need to service before this becomes a real issue? You could also just build it from source...