Caddy
Caddy is a web server like Apache, nginx, or lighttpd, but with different goals, features, and advantages.
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
Features
- Simple installation
- HTTPS Support
- Support for Let's Encrypt
- Reverse Proxy
- Static Site Generator
- HTTP Proxy
- Portable
- Support for MarkDown
- Modular System
- HTTP server
- Content Management
Tags
- static-website
- Http Daemon (httpd)
Caddy News & Activities
Recent News
- POX published news article about Caddy
Web server Caddy 2.10 released with ECH, post-quantum key exchange, and more enhancementsCaddy, a fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP web server, has launched its latest version, 2.10,...
- POX published news article about Caddy
Caddy 2.8.0 released with ARI and HTTP/3 proxy support, and several breaking changesCaddy, an open-source web server with automatic HTTPS, has released version 2.8.0, featuring hundre...
Recent activities
- eliasbuenosdias liked Caddy
K0RR added Caddy as alternative to mini_httpd, thttpd and H2O
K0RR added Caddy as alternative to SimpleHTTPServer and lighttpd- zero00072 liked Caddy
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What is Caddy?
Caddy is a web server like Apache, nginx, or lighttpd, but with different goals, features, and advantages. The purpose of Caddy is to streamline an authentic web development, deployment, and hosting workflow so that anyone can host their own web sites without requiring special technical knowledge.









Comments and Reviews
Caddy is ready to serve your site in 1 second, it has flexible configuration options, HTTPS, hot reload and lots of plugins to extend server configuration. Why should you look for something else?
It is perfect if you need a lightweight and easy-to-use reverse proxy and/or web server for a small project, but if you need max performance with lowest possible latency you should replace Caddy with Nginx