Nginx vs. Caddy Performance [video]

Nginx vs. Caddy Performance [video](youtube.com)

2 points by steve-chavez 1 year ago | 5 comments

steve-chavez 1 year ago |

The TLDR is that Nginx offers about x2 more throughput than Caddy.

BitPirate 1 year ago | |

The benchmark is apparently a bit flawed[1]. I'd take the results with a grain of salt.

[1] https://caddy.community/t/nginx-vs-caddy-benchmark-video/261...

steve-chavez 1 year ago | | |

There's not much substance in the reply there, on one part there's this argument:

> Go programs are fast enough for Google, Netflix, Stripe, and many other large Internet companies… it’s probably fast enough for you

Which of course is an appeal to authority. Overall, it's pretty well known that a GC language will have downsides in perf when compared to system programming languages.

blinded 1 year ago |

Envoy smokes them both. Also has metrics out of the box that are not behind a paywall like nginx.

steve-chavez 1 year ago | |

That's false. On the same youtube channel there's a video [1] comparing Nginx vs Envoy and Nginx offers higher throughput.

Besides that, from what I've seen Envoy has a higher dependency footprint:

- It comes bloated with GRPC functionality.

- Configuration requires running python.

I'd be glad to be proven wrong on the performance side of Envoy but so far I've only heard rumors and never seen a conclusive benchmark.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q9I-x--np4