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Re:Caddy – Open-source web server with automatic HTTPS by throwaway894345 on Monday November 29, 2021 @12:14PM (#29382345)
The claim can't be evaluated as "true or false", which is the point. The use cases for Caddy and similar software are too broad to be meaningfully approximated as a binary or scalar value.
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Re:Caddy – Open-source web server with automatic HTTPS by yjftsjthsd-h on Monday November 29, 2021 @12:20PM (#29382423)
I'm pretty sure you can approximate it to true - are there any cases where Caddy is faster than another webserver in the same usecase, with either default or tweaked configs on both?
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Re:Caddy – Open-source web server with automatic HTTPS by throwaway894345 on Monday November 29, 2021 @12:28PM (#29382521)
Yes, you can get very gritty microbenchmarks, but those always fail to generalize well and lead to more confusion. Most people will make bad decisions off of microbenchmarks and those who won't will tell you they're nearly useless in the best case.
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