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aurelian ,
@aurelian@lemmy.ml avatar

What about envoy proxy?

Nothing else on the market has as low latency implications to workloads that I am aware of.

kolorafa , (edited )

Because Nginx Proxy Manager exists.

And also because for me it started from web hosting where Apache and Nginx dominate and later because of many easy to understand example configs from the net including many “docker letsencrypt” examples.

Takahe ,

Very much became it exist. Its way simpler to do in the GUI.

Did not have to learn anything specific, and can work for things not in docker containers too, like the Nextcloud Snap.

lemmyvore ,

And it makes it very easy to get and maintain certificates.

DarkMetatron , (edited )

Because I have it in use as my main webserver, sure I could put that behind haproxy too but why? I like to keep my server setup small and easy, without unnecessary duplications. Nginx can everything that haproxy can, and more.

wjs018 ,

Some good answers in here already. It boils down to a couple points for me:

  • Back when I started selfhosting, it was either nginx or apache, and I found nginx better and easier to set up
  • All the nginx knowledge I learned years ago still works just the same as it did back then, so why potentially mess things up by switching if it all still works
  • Basically every project has an example nginx config for reference, that can’t be said about other proxies
  • It is easier to find support online for edge cases that might pop up with nginx due to the ubiquity of its use and years of history
carloshr ,
@carloshr@lile.cl avatar

@selfhosted @Findmysec what is the problem with nginx? 🤔

catloaf ,

nginx has more features and flexibility than haproxy, such as being a web server. If I wanted just a pure proxy, I’d use haproxy. Apache is primarily a web server, and a pain to configure.

Personally I use Traefik. Add it to docker-compose, set up LE certs, add a few lines to each container, and it Just Works. No extra config on Traefik itself.

Decronym Bot , (edited )

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
IP Internet Protocol
NAT Network Address Translation
TCP Transmission Control Protocol, most often over IP
nginx Popular HTTP server

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liliumstar ,

Good question. I chose it initially because it was open source and way easier (in my eyes) than Apache. I don’t recall the others being an option at the time, or I was not aware of them. nginx does what I need without complaint, so I haven’t switched.

mystik ,

At $dayjob I switched from Apache to nginx 15+ years ago. It’s Callback/Event based process model ran circles around Apache’s pre-fork model at the time. It was very carefully developed to be secure, and even early on it had a good track record. Being able to have nginx handle static content without tying up a backend worker process was huge, and let us scale our app pretty well for the investment of time. Since then, Apache implemented threaded + Event based process models, Caddy, traefik, and a bunch of others have entered the scene.

TBH, I think the big thing nowadays is sane defaults, and better configuration, even automatically discovered configuration – traefik is my current favorite for discovering hosts in consul/Kubernetes/simple host definition files, but since traefik can’t directly serve files, I simply proxy from traefik to … nginx :)

eager_eagle ,
@eager_eagle@lemmy.world avatar

Nginx handles more connections than Apache, given the same resources. HAProxy does not have web server functionality like the former two, so Nginx is the natural upgrade from Apache. Caddy is relatively new, I’m not sure how it compares other than being easier to set up.

Faceman2K23 ,
@Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

NGINX is a bit more hands on than some other options but it’s mature, configurable and there’s a huge amount of information out there for setting it up for various use cases.

in my case, its what I set up when i was first getting into this and it works, so I don’t want to go through setting up anything else.

TheBigBrother , (edited )

You want to access your server under CG-NAT from the outside or what is the point??

apprehentice ,

nginx is mature and has a lot of support online. A lot of server projects assume you’re using nginx, as well. I’ve only ever seen caddy instructions on newer projects and even then, they usually also have nginx instructions.

Plus, I already know how to use it.

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