caddyserver/caddy
★ 78,153 stars
Covered in week 2026-W25 · the 2026-06 report
Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS
What caddy is
The simplest, cross-platform way to get started is to download Caddy from GitHub Releases and place the executable file in your PATH.
From the repository README · read it on GitHub →
Transcript
NGINX Plus costs $2,500 a year. This does it free. Caddy is a web server that provisions and renews your SSL certificates automatically — no cron jobs, no Certbot setup, no midnight panic about expired HTTPS. One tiny binary, one simple config file, and every domain gets valid HTTPS the moment you launch it. Over sixty thousand developers have starred it on GitHub for killing the most boring job in dev ops. NGINX Plus or Caddy, what's your pick? Comment below.