Why do so many people use NGINX?
I see so many posts and people who run NGINX as their reverse proxy. Why though? There's HAProxy and Apache, with Caddy being a simpler option.
If you're starting from scratch, why did you pick/are you picking NGINX over the others?
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Because pingora doesn't have a Nixos package yet
This is it for me. I used to use caddy a few years ago because writing config files was a breeze. Now I "use" nginx because I can define everything in a few lines of nix and it's configured automagically for me.
Yeah I love that about nix and I can imagine a clever package writer can make a pingora binary to mimic that configurabllity
IIUC pingora is not standalone, but a set of rust crates? Should be already supported by nixpkgs through rust builders.
Yep it would need to be compiled from the configuration given. I'm vaguely interested in trying. I will look up the rust builders. Thank you
Some people are also building a reverse proxy using pingora called river.
Would that lack the performance benefits that pingora provides by being compiled without configuration file?
I mean pingora out performs nginx which is why cloud flare made it, I believe