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Iain J. Reid

Funnily enough Caddy handles medium load more efficiently than NGINX, with much lower times to first byte on average, and with much less CPU consumption. Matt (the project author) made the same findings and dropped them in a thread on the Caddy forums.

Performance is not the only factor to take into account though when building good software, and whilst C or the likes will outperform many languages when counting the Fibonacci sequence, it can't compete with the Go ecosystem when it comes to networking tools. Hell, Netflix uses Go for a huge part of its networking stack, and they boast one of the largest, most complex setups to date.

I'm all for questioning new or "hype" projects, but it's unfair to describe Caddy as such. NGINX is very dated, and whilst it performs fantastically in specific use cases, it's good to have a new alternative that's more forgiving in the many new challenges we face today.

 
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Sergiy Yevtushenko

Well, taking into account that vast majority of networking code across all operating systems is written in C or C++, Go ecosystem is more or less usable at best. And I know what I'm talking about because at one of my previous jobs I was writing networking tools in Go.

 
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@sergiy Yevtushenko
I came across your comment recently, on the other hand, comparing static HTML/dynamic content seem it's a good replacement for PHP-FPM+Nginx with just Go that gave more than 3x performance on a VPS with 1vCPU. At least, that the next logical step to consider since you are probably aware majority of websites on shared hosting are running PHP. Overpaying for lower performance efficiency is bad.