Comparing the best web servers: Caddy, Apache, and Nginx

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nginx Landing Page
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nginx

A high performance free open source web server powering busiest sites on the Internet.
Pricing:
- Open Source
With origins tracing back to the C10K problem, which refers to a web server’s inability to support more than 10,000 concurrent users, Nginx was developed with performance in mind. One of its original goals focused on speed, an area in which Apache was believed to be lacking.

#Web And Application Servers #Web Servers #Application Server 46 social mentions
Let's Encrypt Landing Page
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Let's Encrypt

Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority brought to you by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG).
Pricing:
- Open Source
By default, Caddy comes with support for automatic HTTPS by provisioning and renewing certificates through Let's Encrypt. Of the three web servers we’ve reviewed, Caddy is the only to provide these features out of the box, and it also comes with automatic redirection of HTTP traffic to HTTPS.

#Identity And Access Management #Two Factor Authentication #Security & Privacy 311 social mentions
Apache HTTP Server Landing Page
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Apache HTTP Server

Apache httpd has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April 1996
Pricing:
- Open Source
The Apache HTTP Server, maintained by the Apache Software Foundation, was released in 1995, quickly becoming the world’s favorite web server. Most often used as part of the LAMP stack, Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP, Apache is available for both Unix and Windows operating systems.

#Web And Application Servers #Web Servers #Application Server 50 social mentions
Caddy Landing Page
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Caddy

The HTTP/2 Web Server with Automatic HTTPS
Pricing:
- Open Source
Caddy is an open source web server platform designed to be simple, easy to use, and secure. Written in Go with zero dependencies, Caddy is easy to download and runs on almost every platform that Go compiles on.

#Web Servers #HTTP/2 Web Server #Web And Application Servers 226 social mentions