🆚 Caddy vs. LiteSpeed Web Server
- 📈 LiteSpeed Web Server is much more popular than Caddy.
- 🌎 LiteSpeed Web Server is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
- 🌍 Caddy is more popular in the Marshall Islands, Equatorial Guinea, and Dominica.
Caddy
LiteSpeed Web ServerType
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.
LiteSpeed Web Server is a high-performance commercial web server that can operate as a drop-in replacement for 
Apache, using the same configuration files and control panel integrations.
It uses an event-driven architecture to handle thousands of concurrent connections with low resource usage, supports 
HTTP/2, HTTP/3, and 
QUIC, includes built-in server-level caching through 
LSCache, and provides security features such as anti-DDoS protection and ModSecurity compatibility.
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Pricing
(1 domain, up to 2GB RAM)Free ✔️
(5 domains, up to 8GB RAM)$10/month
(5 domains, unlimited RAM)$16/month
Categories
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
- ⭐ 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.
- 🥇 Most popular in Australia in the Web Servers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the Web Servers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Turkey in the Web Servers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Vietnam in the Web Servers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Romania in the Web Servers 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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Tengine🗃️ 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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.