🆚 Caddy vs. Google Front End

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.

Google Front End (GFE) is Google's globally distributed reverse proxy that accepts client connections at the network edge and routes requests to Google services.

It provides TLS termination, request routing, load balancing, and protection against denial-of-service attacks, and is available only as the underlying infrastructure for Google Cloud Load Balancing and other Google services.

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

• ⭐ 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.

• ⭐ 4th most popular in Japan in the Load Balancers category.
• ⭐ 4th most popular in Taiwan in the Load Balancers category.
• ⭐ 6th most popular in Finland in the Load Balancers category.
• ⭐ 7th most popular in Sweden in the Load Balancers category.
• ⭐ 9th most popular in France in the Load Balancers category.

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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