After 4 years with Nginx, we switched to Caddy

Re:After 4 years with Nginx, we switched to Caddy – Here is why by _iiu1 on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @06:37AM (#20283623)

Somewhat tangential, but I'll take Haproxy anyday over Nginx for the simple fact that Nginx is a a Freemium product, rather than a true open source libre software entity.

I somehow failed to realize over the years that their Pro product is $2500 (given the ubiquity of usage in the OSS community).

I am not contesting it's value, as it brings several vital features to the table, but I feel that it should be mentioned.

Familiarity with Haproxy's dead-simple configuration (although this Caddy seems as simple as pie!) and it's reliability and scalability leads me to also prefer it, even in Kubernetes land, so I do apologize for giving Caddy short shrift in this comment.

It appears that Caddy differentiates merely on free downloads and business SUPPORT plans, which is much cleaner feeling to me, so I applaud this effort to re-direct peoples attention in front-end land.

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Re:After 4 years with Nginx, we switched to Caddy – Here is why by mholt on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @05:53PM (#20339717)

What do you mean by "true open source libre software entity"? HAProxy has enterprise offerings, similar to NGINX: https://www.haproxy.com/products/product-comparison/

What is off-putting about that, exactly?

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