🆚 Caddy vs. F5 BIG-IP
- 📈 F5 BIG-IP is noticeably more popular than Caddy.
- 🌎 F5 BIG-IP is more popular in the United States, France, and Canada.
- 🌍 Caddy is more popular in Germany, the United Kingdom, and Sweden.
Caddy
F5 BIG-IPType
About
Caddy is an open-source multi-platform web server written in 
Go with built-in support for automatic HTTPS and modern web protocols.
It supports automatic TLS management with providers such as Let's Encrypt and ZeroSSL, includes a built-in reverse proxy with load balancing, offers configuration through the human-readable Caddyfile or a 
JSON-based REST API, and features a modular architecture that can be extended with plugins.
F5 BIG-IP is an enterprise-grade application delivery controller and full reverse proxy platform for managing, securing, and optimizing web and API traffic.
It offers programmable Layer 4-7 load balancing with advanced health checks, web application firewall protection against OWASP Top 10 threats, DDoS and bot mitigation, and access control and authentication options including Active Directory/LDAP/RADIUS, and single sign-on.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Germany in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Austria in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Romania in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Belgium in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Bulgaria in the Web Servers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Turkey in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Vietnam in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Saudi Arabia in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Arab Emirates in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Slovakia in the Load Balancers category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.