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Nginx

medium

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

0.1 GB RAM Active BSD-2-Clause
Source 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-serverreverse-proxyload-balancerhttpssl

Pairs well with

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