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If you’re only serving up heavyweight web apps, then this is probably true. But Caddy also markets itself as an efficient static file webserver right on the ho
by PragmaticPulp 5y ago
If you’re only serving up heavyweight web apps, then this is probably true.
But Caddy also markets itself as an efficient static file webserver right on the home page:
> Caddy is both a flexible, efficient static file server and a powerful, scalable reverse proxy.
Perhaps the confusing part is the way that Caddy is marketed as “The Ultimate Server” when instead it’s designed to be a fast-enough reverse proxy for applications where performance doesn’t matter. There are many applications where performance really does matter. Static file serving is the most obvious example.
- throwaway894345 5y ago> There are many applications where performance really does matter. Like what? Genuine question. I'm sure a cloud provider's layer 7 load balancer / Kubernetes Ingress would merit an optimized implementation but beyond those kinds of super-scale use cases I can't think of much.