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Caddy

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Caddy is a web server like Apache, nginx, or lighttpd, but with different goals, features, and advantages.

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License model

  • Free • Open Source

Application types

Country of Origin

  • US flagUnited States

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • BSD
  • FreeBSD
  • OpenBSD
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5 / 5 Avg rating (5)
59likes
2comments
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Features

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Properties

  1.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  Simple installation
  2.  HTTPS Support
  3.  Support for Let's Encrypt
  4.  Reverse Proxy
  5.  Static Site Generator
  6.  HTTP Proxy
  7.  Portable
  8.  Support for MarkDown
  9.  Modular System
  10.  HTTP server
  11.  Content Management

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Caddy News & Activities

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Recent activities

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    K0RR added Caddy as alternative to mini_httpd, thttpd and H2O
    8 days ago
  • App icon
    K0RR added Caddy as alternative to SimpleHTTPServer and lighttpd
    8 days ago
  • zero00072 liked Caddy
    17 days ago
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    CODELEV added Caddy as alternative to Millau
    29 days ago
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    braky added Caddy as alternative to freenginx
    about 1 month ago
  • braky updated Caddy
    about 1 month ago
  • NewLordZeeCaptain reviewed Caddy  
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    2 months ago

    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

  • NewLordZeeCaptain and maxgraye liked Caddy
    2 months ago
  • App icon
    POX added Caddy as alternative to Ferron
    3 months ago
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Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
Zee Pepe
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May 16, 2025
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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

RemovedUser
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May 15, 2018
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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?

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.

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Caddy information

  • Developed by

    US flagLight Code Labs, LLC.

  • Licensing

    Open Source (Apache-2.0) and Free product.

  • Pricing

    One time purchase (perpetual license) that costs $0.

  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 5

  • Alternatives

    25 alternatives listed

  • Supported Languages

    • English

AlternativeTo Categories

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GitHub repository

  •  65,478 Stars
  •  4,386 Forks
  •  222 Open Issues
  •   Updated Jul 14, 2025 
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Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about Caddy, and it has gotten 59 likes

Caddy was added to AlternativeTo by naRen93 on Jul 29, 2015 and this page was last updated Jun 16, 2025.