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I'm surprised no-one has mentioned the admin API [0], which imo is one of the main differentiators of Caddy. I've used it to dynamically change the config witho
by meander_water 2y ago
I'm surprised no-one has mentioned the admin API [0], which imo is one of the main differentiators of Caddy. I've used it to dynamically change the config without any downtime.
[0] https://caddyserver.com/docs/api https://caddyserver.com/docs/api
- jsheard 2y agoNginx does have something similar... but it's one of the features that is exclusive to the paid version. Likewise with other features like active healthchecks, which are supported by both, but paywalled in Nginx.
- homebrewer 2y agoMost nginx options can be applied on the fly by changing the config and running 'nginx -s reload' or 'systemctl reload nginx' (which runs the first command underneath). No downtime for most use cases (including switching backends).