I am a long time fan and user of Nginx. Consequently, I even maintain packages for Nginx for Windows. Because I like trying alternative web servers, and follow this topic, I heard of a newer web server written in Go called Caddy. Ultimately, I gave the Caddy Web Server a try over on my business site, kevindustries.com. I wrote up a quick introduction and summary about my experience with it.

Also included is a Github Gist (code snippet) showing my actual configuration (known as a Caddyfile) that I use to serve the Kevindustries site. See the blog post and configuration here: Caddy Web Server.

Nginx 1.10.0 for Windows (32-bit and 64-bit builds) are now available for free download. As always, packages are built from the upstream stable branch. Nginx (pronounced “engine x”) is a high performance web server, caching proxy and a Layer 7 load balancing solution. Millions of web sites on the Internet use and benefit from Nginx because of its extreme performance, scalability, reliability, flexibility, and security.

Note: This is just a re-release of 1.9.15 with the stable tag on it.

Following Nginx’s standard practice, for the next cycle mainline versions will be released as 1.11.x and stable as 1.10.x. Version 1.8.x is now unsupported by NGINX and will not receive updates.

On 2016-04-26, the stable version of Nginx 1.10.0 was released at nginx.org. The upstream changelog is as follows: [continue reading…]