Should beehaw ditch NGINX for Caddy?

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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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People comment a lot on performance, but I think Caddy can (and should) hold up perfectly fine. It might be worth it to experiment with running servers half on Caddy and half on NGINX, then see how the traffic is being handled by both to compare.

I do think the much cleaner config makes up for the maybe slight performance loss, though. It's just so much less work to set up and maintain compared to NGINX. The last time I've used NGINX was years ago, when I decided to drop it entirely in favor of Caddy. I do think NGINX is only "standard" because it came before Caddy, and that most applications should not prefer it over Caddy.

I, too, dislike NGINX configs, but mainly I think Caddy should be considered for the feature set and performance it has over nginx. While it is true that nginx is pretty performant, that is without talking about third party modules written in Lua. Cloudflare had an amazing post about it a while back where they said while nginx on its own is ok, when you add third party scripts into the mix it slows down to a craw.