🆚 Caddy vs. Phusion Passenger

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Caddy is four times more popular than Phusion Passenger.
🌎 Caddy is more popular in Germany, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
🌍 Phusion Passenger is more popular in Ukraine, Portugal, and Greece.

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.

Phusion Passenger a fast and robust web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js.

Headquarters

Vienna, Austria

Apeldoorn, Netherlands

Website

caddyserver.com #20,138

phusionpassenger.com #147,836

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Free version ✔️Open source

Passenger Enterprise$43.32+/month

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Caddy web server is 4 times more popular than Phusion Passenger.

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 Phusion Passenger is more popular in Ukraine, Portugal, and Greece.

Germany

United States

United Kingdom

France

Netherlands

Sweden

Spain

Canada

Russia

Japan

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.

⭐ 6th most popular in Ukraine in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 6th most popular in Croatia in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 7th most popular in Poland in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 7th most popular in the Czech Republic in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 7th most popular in Mexico 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 online shopping, while Phusion Passenger is more commonly used on health, public information, and fashion and beauty sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Blogs/Wiki

Internet Services

Education/Reference

Entertainment

Travel

Sports

Real Estate