Better PHP Sites with the Caddy Web Server
summary
API Platform replaces Nginx with Caddy and cuts containers from 8 to 4 while gaining memory safety and automatic HTTPS via the Caddyfile and integrated php_fastcgi directive that proxies FastCGI directly to PHP. Real users report ~100 ms latency drops after switching. Caddy provisions and renews certificates automatically, supports clustered storage backends for keys, and issues certificates on the fly with On-Demand TLS, scaling to tens of thousands of hosted domains.
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chapters (28)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:55What is the Web Server
- 5:28What the Web Server does
- 7:55Introducing the Caddy Web Server
- 8:15What is Caddy
- 9:32Automatic HTTPS
- 10:49Memory Safety
- 11:33Deployment
- 12:23Plugin Integration
- 13:18Configuration API
- 14:47Configuration Adapters
- 15:46Caddy File
- 16:42PHP Fastcgi
- 18:03PHP Fastcgi Configuration
- 19:59Performance
- 20:33Config File
- 21:45Automatic HTTPS Service
- 22:23Automatic Certificate Authority
- 23:11ACME Challenge
- 24:49OnDemand TLS
- 25:16Domain Name Management
- 26:34Prevent Abuse
- 27:14API Platform
- 27:39API Platform v26
- 28:09API Platform Caddy File
- 29:08Documentation
- 29:49Sponsor Open Source
- 30:22Questions
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