Skip to main content
bbaovanc’s Website

tag icon Caddy rss-feed icon

newspaper icon 2 posts

Caddy is a powerful and open source webserver written in Golang which includes some fancy features such as built-in automatic HTTPS. It’s by far my favorite webserver. See my blog post about Caddy for why.

Using GitHub Actions to audit my website with Google Chrome Lighthouse

calendar icon user-circle icon bbaovanc clock icon 4 mins message icon comments
folder icon Meta
tag icon Caddy DevOps Github Actions Google Lighthouse
Picture of the Performance section on the Lighthouse CI dashboard

The other day I set up automatic testing of my website using Google Chrome Lighthouse. I’m also running my own Lighthouse CI server to store test result history and show trends. Here’s an outline of what this means, some of the results I’ve obtained so far, and my thoughts on the usefulness of Lighthouse.

Read more →

Caddy is literally the best webserver

calendar icon user-circle icon bbaovanc clock icon 4 mins message icon comments
folder icon Reviews
tag icon Caddy Linux Sysadmin Webserver
Caddy’s (old) official logo: latest archive. Converted to webp to save space.

After switching from NGINX to Caddy on all of my websites, I have come to the conclusion that Caddy is the best webserver in existence. With automatic HTTPS, a simple configuration file, and more, Caddy is just the best webserver overall for general use.

Read more →