My favourite
All servers in my academic lab are either based on Nginx (Mainline) or Apache 2. But neither Apache, nor Caddy nor HAProxy nor OLS can beat Nginx.
If you want to move into HTTP/3 and QUIC and you want to be early adopters of Quantum Safe Computing, Nginx (mainline) is a no brainer.
Why not the others?
- Apache: Too slow. Lacks modern features. Fails to mirror my ambition to construct bleeding edge servers. I use it only for my daughter's blog.
- Caddy: Reasonably innovative; but too closely integrated into the SSL library and stops at 2x100% and 2x90% on SSL test at the best configuration.
- OpenLiteSpeed: A bit too heavy and creates extra security management work for me. But it has potential.
- If you have other suggestions, please let me know.
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