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despite knowing what caddy is, this site turns me off for all the marketing fluff. since when was hn for ads? there's nothing notably technical on the page

by arccy 2y ago

lolinder 2y ago
> By default, Caddy automatically obtains and renews TLS certificates for all your sites. This is pretty technical, and is an absolute game changer for local TLS setups. Three paragraphs under this quote go into more details. Then a third of the way down the page there's a way to try it out live by changing your DNS records. Right after that are a few config samples. Then there are links to three different white papers. Then more code samples. Then more more code samples. You get the idea. What exactly are you missing here as far as technical stuff? Is it just that they add exciting fonts and stuff on top of the technical stuff?
- arccy 2y ago
  it's all just marketing fluff
  - kupopuffs 2y ago
    r u sure you want the technical stuff?
    - arccy 2y ago
      it looks like any other marketing site, no talk of how or why anything in particular is implemented the way it is, doesn't admit to any tradeoffs or limitations, all positive spin designed to lure you in.
      - lolinder 2y ago
        Your comments are more devoid of technical details than the site is. People keep asking you to clarify what you mean and you seem unable to pin down exactly what is lacking.
  - lynndotpy 2y ago
    Not sure how this is "fluff". That's a feature that has significant appeal for me as a sysadmin. The landing page is full of demos and technical features relevant for anyone who needs an HTTP server. It took me ten minutes with Caddy to replace five years of Apache+Nginx. That was three years ago.
- breadwinner 2y ago
  > game changer for local TLS setups I wouldn't call it a game changer, because you have to expose port 80 and 443 to public internet to get a real certificate. If you can't do that then Caddy signs its own certificates. That means you have to install the root certificate... this is hard to do in most companies.
  - lolinder 2y ago
    No you don't. DNS challenges are a thing, and they're easy to set up. That's how my local is configured.
BoingBoomTschak 2y ago
I agree that the website isn't very appealing for techies. Still what I use to serve my website, so simple a chimp could deploy with it; though I'm kinda dreading the moment I'll put cgit behind it.

despite knowing what caddy is, this site turns me off for all the marketing fluff. since when was hn for ads? there's nothing notably technical on the page

by arccy 2y ago

despite knowing what caddy is, this site turns me off for all the marketing fluff. since when was hn for ads? there's nothing notably technical on the page

lolinder 2y ago

> By default, Caddy automatically obtains and renews TLS certificates for all your sites. This is pretty technical, and is an absolute game changer for local TLS setups. Three paragraphs under this quote go into more details. Then a third of the way down the page there's a way to try it out live by changing your DNS records. Right after that are a few config samples. Then there are links to three different white papers. Then more code samples. Then more more code samples. You get the idea. What exactly are you missing here as far as technical stuff? Is it just that they add exciting fonts and stuff on top of the technical stuff?

arccy 2y ago
it's all just marketing fluff
- kupopuffs 2y ago
  r u sure you want the technical stuff?
  - arccy 2y ago
    it looks like any other marketing site, no talk of how or why anything in particular is implemented the way it is, doesn't admit to any tradeoffs or limitations, all positive spin designed to lure you in.
    - lolinder 2y ago
      Your comments are more devoid of technical details than the site is. People keep asking you to clarify what you mean and you seem unable to pin down exactly what is lacking.
- lynndotpy 2y ago
  Not sure how this is "fluff". That's a feature that has significant appeal for me as a sysadmin. The landing page is full of demos and technical features relevant for anyone who needs an HTTP server. It took me ten minutes with Caddy to replace five years of Apache+Nginx. That was three years ago.
breadwinner 2y ago
> game changer for local TLS setups I wouldn't call it a game changer, because you have to expose port 80 and 443 to public internet to get a real certificate. If you can't do that then Caddy signs its own certificates. That means you have to install the root certificate... this is hard to do in most companies.
- lolinder 2y ago
  No you don't. DNS challenges are a thing, and they're easy to set up. That's how my local is configured.

BoingBoomTschak 2y ago

I agree that the website isn't very appealing for techies. Still what I use to serve my website, so simple a chimp could deploy with it; though I'm kinda dreading the moment I'll put cgit behind it.