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This seems too straightforward, what's the catch?

Like how secure is it? Should I be turning it off (and disabling the port forwarding) when not using it?

Do I need any additional security? Mainly just want to use it for Jellyfin

Thanks

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Caddy is a great, easy web server. It honestly has some pretty good performance too. If you want to see some good tests against nginx, take a look at this:

https://blog.tjll.net/reverse-proxy-hot-dog-eating-contest-caddy-vs-nginx/

tldr: Optimized nginx does outperform caddy in some areas in under heavy load, and they have a completely different strategies to handle failure. Under very heavy load Nginx just starts dropping and refusing connections to keep itself fast, while caddy will dramatically slow down response times in order to keep failures from happening.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Lack of docker labels is a downer, but it’s the best reverse proxy I have used. Recently started a project to run containers with caddy

https://github.com/scmmishra/slick-deploy

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I would like to jump over to it. I have been struggling with Nginx and Apache and I am afraid I have made a mess of things. I am installing on an old Mac Mini with Mac OS so I don't really have a way to isolate and remove Nginx and Apache and I have a feeling if I try Caddy I will get some interferences.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Try it, heres a decent guide with lot of examples.

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