Re:The future of Nginx: Getting back to our open source roots
by heurisko on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @03:18AM
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Pasting a link from when we previously talked about this, for interest.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31439457
Appreciative of all the work regarding caddy, but the rate limiting seems to be chicken and egg, as few people seem to be willing to test it out in order for it to be accepted into core, and people are unwilling to test it out, because it's not in core.
It's also a blocker for me, so nginx wins by force of inertia.
Re:The future of Nginx: Getting back to our open source roots
by jakearmitage on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @02:23PM
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Same for me. If it's not on core, means devs don't want to support it, which means it is buggy, therefore not ready for production.
Re:The future of Nginx: Getting back to our open source roots
by mholt on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @02:57PM
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No; if it's not in the core, that means we don't want to bloat the code base. Caddy is extensible for very good reasons!
Re:The future of Nginx: Getting back to our open source roots
by mholt on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @12:48PM
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Happy to finish it if a company would like to sponsor that work. It works well enough for what it was originally commissioned for. It actually will probably work pretty well for you as-is. Try it!
It would be great if you would like to finish the work on this project and make it part of the Caddy default distribution.
Honestly I do not understand how people run high-traffic sites without rate limiting. [D]DOS attacks and other misuse (e.g. spambots etc.) are daily issues on the internet, do you just ignore that?