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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
Why is nginx preferred over Apache these days? I believe nginx was originally preferred because Apache had scaling issues with its original forking concurrency model, but that was replaced a long time ago, so…why use nginx today?
That's why I'm entertaining the idea of an alternative in this post. Although it seems there are a lot of mixed opinions on this matter
I don't know about Caddy, but if they aren't using Varnish or similar they should consider it. A caching server can be helpful for frequently repeating fairly stable parts of websites and has a fairly significant performance benefit.
I think considering alternatives is important. Even if the 'default' option is good enough. I always enjoy looking around for new ways to go about things.