Nginx

medium

High-performance web server and reverse proxy used by millions of sites worldwide.

0.1 GB RAM min Active development

GitHub Docs Website

Pros

Industry standard web server
Excellent performance
Huge ecosystem and documentation
Battle-tested at massive scale

Cons

Configuration syntax has a learning curve
No automatic HTTPS like Caddy
Reloads needed for config changes
Open source version lacks some features of Nginx Plus

Tags

web-server reverse-proxy load-balancer http ssl

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