🆚 Caddy vs. Phusion Passenger
- 📈 Caddy is four times more popular than Phusion Passenger.
- 🌎 Caddy is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Phusion Passenger is more popular in Ukraine, Portugal, and Greece.
Statistics based on 3.4M+ analyzed websites. About this data
CaddyType
Web server
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.
Node.jsHeadquarters
Vienna, Austria
Apeldoorn, Netherlands
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free version ✔️Open source
Passenger Enterprise$43.32+/month
Categories
Web Servers › Rank #7
Web Servers › Rank #13
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 the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Phusion Passenger is more popular in Ukraine, Portugal, and Greece.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Netherlands
Sweden
Russia
Canada
Spain
Japan
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 Croatia in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Ukraine 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, job search, and public information sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Travel
Sports
Real Estate
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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GlassFish🗃️ 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 3,406,701 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.