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by 1_player 1874 days ago
Indeed. I never got comfortable with Apache after 15 years of administering Linux systems. Configuring Apache is like setting up Postfix or Sendmail: it does not spark joy. NGINX was initially interesting, nowadays still requires a ton of boilerplate, and does everything and the kitchen sink. Lighttpd almost went the way of the dodo for similar reason I suspect.

HTTP is not new technology, nor rocket science, a web server to serve a simple HTML page should be configurable from scratch, from an empty .conf file, in seconds.

Caddy seems to share the same philosophy.