🆚 Caddy vs. Google Host Server

📈 Caddy is three times more popular than Google Host Server.
🌎 Caddy is more popular in Germany, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
🌎 Google Host Server is more popular in Indonesia, India, and Brazil.

Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Caddy

Google Host Server

Type

Web server

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.

Google Host Server (GHS) is a proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.

Headquarters

Vienna, Austria

Mountain View, California, United States

Website

caddyserver.com #20,138

google.com #1

Pricing

Free ✔️ Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Caddy web server is 2.6 times more popular than Google Host Server.

Total websites

Market share

Web Servers

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Caddy is more popular in Germany, the United States, and the United Kingdom, while Google Host Server is more popular in Indonesia, India, and Brazil.

Germany

United States

United Kingdom

France

Indonesia

India

Netherlands

Sweden

Brazil

Spain

Awards

⭐ 5th most popular in Germany in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Belgium 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 Finland in the Web Servers category.

⭐ 5th most popular in Indonesia in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 7th most popular in India in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 7th most popular in Brazil in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 7th most popular in Portugal in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 7th most popular in Greece in the Web Servers category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Caddy is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and education and reference, while Google Host Server is more commonly used on blogs and wiki sites.

Blogs/Wiki

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Education/Reference

Online Shopping

Entertainment

Internet Services

Travel

Sports

General News

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

eldiario.es

#1,610

x*x.com

#2,428

#2,756

#2,826

#3,189

Name

Rank

#5,170

#5,245

#8,265

#9,276

#16,592