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Should beehaw ditch NGINX for Caddy? (preview.redd.it)
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I've recently been wondering if Lemmy should switch out NGINX for Caddy, while I hadn't had experience with Caddy it looks like a great & fast alternative, What do you all think?

EDIT: I meant beehaw not Lemmy as a whole

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (16 children)

While I can't speak for others, I've found NGINX to have weird issues where sometimes it just dies. And I have to manually restart the systemd service.

The configuration files are verbose, and maybe caddy would have better performance? I hadn't investigated it much

EDIT:

Nginx lacks http3 support out of the box

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm running a lot of services off my nginx reverse proxy. This is my general setup for each subdomain - each in its own config file. I wouldn't consider this verbose in any way - and it's never crashed on me

service.conf

server {
    listen       443 ssl http2;
    listen  [::]:443 ssl http2;
    server_name  [something].0x-ia.moe;

    include /etc/nginx/acl_local.conf;
    include /etc/nginx/default_settings.conf;
    include /etc/nginx/ssl_0x-ia.conf;

    location / {
        proxy_pass              http://[host]:[port]/;
    }
}
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  1. there are hidden configs
  2. this adds up quickly for more complex scenarios
  3. Yeah, fair enough it is really a preference thing and caddy supports it
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The hidden configs are boilerplate which are easily imported for any applicable service. A set-once set of files isn't what I would count towards being verbose. 90% of my services use the exact same format.

If a certain service is complicated and needs more config in nginx, it's going to be the same for caddy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The hidden configs are boilerplate which are easily imported for any applicable service. A set-once set of files isn’t what I would count towards being verbose. 90% of my services use the exact same format.

I don't know, I prefer it to be easier to set up my proxy especially when it comes to configs, each to their own I guess.

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