Should beehaw ditch NGINX for Caddy?
I've recently been wondering if Lemmy should switch out NGINX for Caddy, while I hadn't had experience with Caddy it looks like a great & fast alternative, What do you all think?
EDIT: I meant beehaw not Lemmy as a whole
One more thing I forgot to mention. The nginx 500 errors people are getting on multiple Lemmy sites could improve shortly with the release of 0.18 that stops using websockets. Right now Lemmy webapp is passing those through nginx for every web browser client.
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You can use any reverse proxy you'd like, doesn't have anything to do with lemmy
Nginx has nothing to do with the performance issues of Lemmy. :)
It does actually, NGINX likes to drop connections when it gets overwhelmed, Caddy prefers to slow down the connection and respond when it can.
This might be true but appservers and DBs usually give up way before nginx.
If it’s not broken why change it? Are there performance benefits to switching?
I think there are, but there would need to be testing done, on the surface it seems to be a much simpler proxy than nginx. And doesn't use the same architecture as Nginx
People comment a lot on performance, but I think Caddy can (and should) hold up perfectly fine. It might be worth it to experiment with running servers half on Caddy and half on NGINX, then see how the traffic is being handled by both to compare.
I do think the much cleaner config makes up for the maybe slight performance loss, though. It's just so much less work to set up and maintain compared to NGINX. The last time I've used NGINX was years ago, when I decided to drop it entirely in favor of Caddy. I do think NGINX is only "standard" because it came before Caddy, and that most applications should not prefer it over Caddy.