🆚 Caddy vs. OpenResty
Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *- 📈 OpenResty is five times more popular than Caddy.
- 🌎 OpenResty is more popular in the United States, China, and Korea.
- 🌍 Caddy is more popular in Germany, Austria, and Belgium.
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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.
OpenResty is an Nginx distribution that bundles the LuaJIT interpreter to run Lua scripts directly inside the web server.
It embeds Lua, a lightweight scripting language, into Nginx's event-driven architecture, enabling high-performance dynamic request handling, asynchronous I/O, API and microservice development, traffic control, caching, authentication, and logging.
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Awards
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Bulgaria in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Germany in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Belgium in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Romania in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Austria in the Web Servers category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Samoa in the Web Servers category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Korea in the Web Servers category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Russia in the Web Servers category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Slovakia in the Web Servers category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Seychelles in the Web Servers category.
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