Re:Caddy – Open-source web server with automatic HTTPS
by mholt on Monday November 29, 2021 @11:19AM
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It's hard to quantify web server performance in a way that is both truly representative and truly generalizable, such that you can draw correct conclusions for specific setups and use cases. Ultimately we just recommend you do your own tuning and performance testing, especially since so many external factors are involved.
Re:Caddy – Open-source web server with automatic HTTPS
by philipwhiuk on Monday November 29, 2021 @02:39PM
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That would have been a better answer than "it performs as well as every other Go server" which probably does a dis-service to any tuning work you've done (or any tuning work any other server has done on the thin chance you've not done any).
I guess it would make more sense if they came right out and said that it’s best used for these applications where it’s acting as a reverse proxy for a heavy backend and therefore performance isn’t a big issue.
But I’m constantly confused by the vague responses combined with the allusions to claims that it’s super-fast because it uses Go like Google or Tweets about it being 20X more performant than nginx when it’s clearly not.