I see so many posts and people who run NGINX as their reverse proxy. Why though? There’s HAProxy and Apache, with Caddy being a simpler option.

If you’re starting from scratch, why did you pick/are you picking NGINX over the others?

  • Silver Golden@lemmy.brendan.ieEnglish
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    4 months ago

    This is it for me. I used to use caddy a few years ago because writing config files was a breeze. Now I “use” nginx because I can define everything in a few lines of nix and it’s configured automagically for me.

    • jimmy90@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Yeah I love that about nix and I can imagine a clever package writer can make a pingora binary to mimic that configurabllity