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I've recently been wondering if Lemmy should switch out NGINX for Caddy, while I hadn't had experience with Caddy it looks like a great & fast alternative, What do you all think?
EDIT: I meant beehaw not Lemmy as a whole
It's just matter of preference, really. You can use any reverse proxy you want in your docker compose file. With Caddy, setting up letsencrypt is a lot easier than other webservers which might help setting up your own instance a bit easier.
I don't know about Caddy, but if they aren't using Varnish or similar they should consider it. A caching server can be helpful for frequently repeating fairly stable parts of websites and has a fairly significant performance benefit.
I think considering alternatives is important. Even if the 'default' option is good enough. I always enjoy looking around for new ways to go about things.
I toyed around with Caddy on my homelab for a bit but I ended back on nginx. Performance was not noticeably different and I really didn't like the Caddyfile syntax.