This seems too straightforward, what’s the catch?

Like how secure is it? Should I be turning it off (and disabling the port forwarding) when not using it?

Do I need any additional security? Mainly just want to use it for Jellyfin

Thanks

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Lack of docker labels is a downer, but it’s the best reverse proxy I have used. Recently started a project to run containers with caddy

https://github.com/scmmishra/slick-deploy

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Caddy is a great, easy web server. It honestly has some pretty good performance too. If you want to see some good tests against nginx, take a look at this:

https://blog.tjll.net/reverse-proxy-hot-dog-eating-contest-caddy-vs-nginx/

tldr: Optimized nginx does outperform caddy in some areas in under heavy load, and they have a completely different strategies to handle failure. Under very heavy load Nginx just starts dropping and refusing connections to keep itself fast, while caddy will dramatically slow down response times in order to keep failures from happening.

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I would like to jump over to it. I have been struggling with Nginx and Apache and I am afraid I have made a mess of things. I am installing on an old Mac Mini with Mac OS so I don’t really have a way to isolate and remove Nginx and Apache and I have a feeling if I try Caddy I will get some interferences.

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Try it, heres a decent guide with lot of examples.

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Used Caddy for years and after a week of Nginx Proxy Manager I never went back to Caddy.

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Strange, I never quite got why ever would i want to swtich to NPM, tried it and never liked it…

I ssh in and edit my caddyfile faster than I go to npm web interface and click through menus. I actually can just copy paste caddyfile config and have backup of it, while I am not even sure if npm has any backup solution by now, or you just suppose to backup on docker level.

And it is kinda in the way, a gui layer if you wanna do something more…

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it is what you mean…no less no more…Caddy rocks…

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