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Should beehaw ditch NGINX for Caddy?
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I, too, dislike NGINX configs, but mainly I think Caddy should be considered for the feature set and performance it has over nginx. While it is true that nginx is pretty performant, that is without talking about third party modules written in Lua. Cloudflare had an amazing post about it a while back where they said while nginx on its own is ok, when you add third party scripts into the mix it slows down to a craw.
I had no idea that NGINX has Lua plugins. You'd probably want to check if Caddy has equivalents for those plugins though, or just implement them in Go yourself.
Caddy uses go based plugins, I remember, they're called modules.
Source: https://caddyserver.com/docs/modules/