Caddy
Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS (by caddyserver)
HAProxy
HAProxy documentation (by langpavel)
| Caddy | HAProxy | |
|---|---|---|
| 435 | - | |
| 63,585 | 8 | |
| 2.6% | - | |
| 9.4 | 0.0 | |
| about 23 hours ago | about 13 years ago | |
| Go | JavaScript | |
| Apache License 2.0 | - |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Caddy
Posts with mentions or reviews of Caddy.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-04-14.
- Caddy v2.10
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Simple Web Server
It looks nice and friendly, but for developers I can recommend exploring caddy[1] or nginx[2]. It's a useful technology to have worked with, even if they're ultimately only used for proxying analytics.
[1] https://caddyserver.com/
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Adventures in Homelabbing: From Cloud Obsession to Self-Hosted Shenanigans
I began to self-host a Minecraft server using Crafty Controller, an Excalidraw instance, Docmost to replace Notion, Plane to replace Jira, and Penpot to replace Figma. To be able to access them from the internet, I used Nginx Proxy Manager to set up reverse proxies with SSL. You can use Traefik or Caddy instead, but I enjoyed the ease-of-use of NPM. For a dashboard solution, I started with Homarr, but later switched to Homepage because I'm apparently incapable of making a decision and sticking with it.
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An Introduction to Cosmo Router — Blazingly Fast Open-Source Federation V1/V2 Gateway
This approach offers a level of customizability similar to what xcaddy does for the Caddy server, eliminating the complexities associated with writing Rhai scripts to customize a precompiled binary, as is the case with the Apollo Router.
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The Easiest Way To Use Https In Localhost
Caddy is a server written in Go programming language, known to be easy peasy to configure (Unlike configuring Nginx), and it also includes https by default.
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Self-hosting with Caddy Server And Souin (Caching Module)
Caddy is the ultimate web server anyone should be using. This is true for production as well as for local development. It is very fast, and by default obtains and renews SSL certificates automatically. This is useful for when you want to test certain website feature that is only allowed when they're accessed with HTTPS. You get free TLS for all your subdomains, and it does that in a scalable way.
- Nginx: Try_files Is Evil Too
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The Plan 9 Foundation
Did you happen to look at caddy? It at least used to have some degree of support for plan9: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/issues/1093
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Setting up a trusted, self-signed SSL/TLS certificate authority in Linux
https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/issues/5759 :
> When generating a CA cert via caddy and putting that in the trust store, those private keys can also forge certificates for any other domain.
RFC5280 (2008) "Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Profile" > Section 4.2.1.10
- Caddy – The Ultimate Server with Automatic HTTPS
HAProxy
Posts with mentions or reviews of HAProxy.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
We haven't tracked posts mentioning HAProxy yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Caddy and HAProxy you can also consider the following projects:
oauth2-proxy - A reverse proxy that provides authentication with Google, Azure, OpenID Connect and many more identity providers.
Squid - Squid Web Proxy Cache
traefik - The Cloud Native Application Proxy
envoy - Cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy
Lighttpd - lighttpd2 on github for easier collaboration - main repo still on lighttpd.net