8 engineers on Hacker News describe using Caddy first-hand: 3 endorse it, 1 regret it, 2 are mixed.
“we run Caddy at the office and just specify --log-format=CADDY --keep-last=90 --date-spec=min and a single instance is ingesting ~100M/req a month”
endorse · production · joshyi · 2026-08-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Caddy is really great. In prod, but most surprisingly for all environments.”
endorse · production · iloveitaly · 2025-02-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“with NGINX - 15-20%, with Caddy - 70-80%. ... I still absolutely love Caddy and use it in a few small scale apps.”
mixed · production · 0.5 yr · supz_k · 2023-09-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Been using Caddy in prod for a year now, this issue... could single-handedly get me back on nginx.”
regret · production · 1 yr · scrollaway · 2017-05-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use it on https://hsreplay.net, which serves about 100-200k requests / day behind Cloudflare. Pros: It's super useful not to have to worry about HTTPS renewal.”
mixed · production · scrollaway · 2016-10-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have an intel NUC hosting homeassistant, pihole, caddy, deluge, jellyfin and a handful of other stuff.”
neutral · personal · Dedime · 2024-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Reverse proxy in front of the services like Jellyfin”
neutral · personal · seanlane · 2023-10-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?