Nginx, Caddy, Traefik, or HAProxy: How to Pick the Right Reverse Proxy for Your Stack (2026)
Have you ever heard "Caddy is great" and wondered what actually makes it different from Nginx? Or maybe you were evaluating Traefik for a Kubernetes…
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Stop saying SSL: TLS only does three jobs, and your 'SSL cert' is usually not the outage
Runbooks still say "renew the SSL certificate" when the browser warning is obsolete protocol . The certificate can be brand new. The tunnel is still…
nginx is not the bug. Two lines of your config are. CVE-2026-42945 on a live stand
A critical nginx vulnerability, 9.2 on CVSS, sat in the code for eighteen years. It was found not by a human but by an AI agent, and six hours were…
100 Days of DevOps and Cloud (AWS), Day 26: Origin Is Just a Nickname, and Localhost Tells the Truth
A lot of confusion in this field comes from taking a name at face value. origin sounds like it means something. A server that "isn't working" sounds…
"nginx doesn't run your config top to bottom: two traps with rewrite, try_files, and if"
You write a rewrite , then a try_files right under it, and you read it as "the rewrite on top runs first, the try_files below runs after." You put a…
Why I Stopped Trusting "It Works on My Machine" and Actually Learned to Ship
I'll be honest about where this started. I could run docker-compose up and get an app running locally. I could follow a tutorial and end up with som…
Caddy vs Nginx: Which Reverse Proxy Should You Use in 2026?
Caddy and Nginx are reverse proxies that sit in front of web applications, receive user traffic, handle edge behavior such as HTTPS and routing, and…
Nineteen Subdomains, One Allowed IP
One DNS record covers the whole box: *.example.com → 203.0.113.10 . I set it once, and publishing a service has not involved DNS since. I pick a nam…
Deploying ImgProxy – Process, Resize, Convert Images on the Fly
ImgProxy is an open-source image-processing server — resize, convert, and transform images on the fly via URL parameters, ideal as a caching layer i…
Deploying Gradio on Ubuntu 22.04
Gradio is a Python library for wrapping any ML model in a web interface, ready to deploy and scale as an app. This guide builds a GFPGAN-powered fac…
Installing Nginx UI – An Open-Source WebUI for Nginx
Nginx UI is an open-source web GUI for managing Nginx, single-node or clustered, with real-time stats, automatic Let's Encrypt TLS, performance moni…
Deploying Laravel with Nginx on Ubuntu 24.04
Laravel is a popular PHP framework with routing, authentication, and database management built in. This guide deploys a Laravel app behind Nginx on…
Building an On-Premise Kubernetes Cluster — Part 5: Deploying Your First Container
🇧🇷 Leia a versão em português aqui In previous parts of this series, we built the cluster from scratch: prepared the environment (Part 1), installed…
The Middelmen (Ep-3 of The 0$ Cloud)
It turns out the internet is full of middlemen. Some forward requests, some establish trust, and some simply make communication possible. I learned…
$request_time Looks Fast, But Users Say It''s Slow: Breaking nginx Latency into 4 Parts
Your nginx $request_time looks fine in the dashboard — p95 is 120ms, totally reasonable. But users keep reporting that things "occasionally freeze."…
Nginx from Zero: Config Files to HTTPS
This would be a simple write-up explaining Nginx to a complete beginner. Nginx Folder Structure An Nginx folder can range from having just a single…
Silent nginx Config Bugs That Pass nginx -t: if, location, add_header, alias
nginx -t returns syntax is ok and test is successful . nginx -s reload finishes without a complaint. Nothing shows up in the error log. And yet the…
NGINX Abuse Guard Module: Auto-Ban Scanners and Bots
Open your NGINX error log on any public server and you will see the same thing: a steady drip of 404 s probing for /wp-login.php , /.env , /phpmyadm…
Building a Complete CI/CD Pipeline with Docker and GitHub Actions
Modern software delivery is about much more than writing code. It requires automation, collaboration, repeatability, and reliable deployment workflo…
Reverse Proxy Setup + SSL Self-Sign (Root CA + Wildcard)
Pada postingan ini saya akan membahas bagaimana membangun Reverse Proxy Nginx dengan SSL Internal (Self-Signed PKI) tanpa menggunakan domain publik…
nginx Event Loop — Complete Lifecycle Reference
nginx Event Loop — Complete Lifecycle Reference A precise, bottom-up reference covering every buffer, syscall, interrupt, and data movement from the…
How a Magento 2 Upgrade Broke Our Multi-Website Setup (And Why the Problem Wasn't Magento)
A few weeks ago, I was working on a Magento 2 upgrade for a project that hosts multiple websites under a single Magento installation. The upgrade it…
I Built a Beginner-Friendly NGINX Automation CLI for Linux Servers
I’ve configured NGINX manually more times than I can count. Every server setup usually turns into the same repetitive process: install nginx configu…
How I Built a Custom Kubernetes Ingress in Rust/Go That Outperforms Nginx by 11%
How I Built a Custom Kubernetes Ingress in Rust/Go That Outperforms Nginx by 11% Silex: Re-engineering K8s Edge Routing for the Cloud-Native Era The…
Cloudflare HTML Cache Stuck at 1.1%: Recovery with Nginx map
Cloudflare dashboard was showing a 1.1% cache rate I picked up the habit this week of checking the performance dashboard regularly. I opened the sta…
How to Connect a Namecheap Domain to a DigitalOcean Droplet with Nginx
Buying a domain is exciting. Creating a server is exciting too. But the moment you try to connect both of them, things can feel confusing. You bough…
Docker Deploy on VPS: Nginx Strategies for Zero Downtime
Docker Deploy on VPS: Nginx Strategies for Zero Downtime A late shipment report from a production ERP system was consistently missing. It took three…
Adding zstd support to nginx
I installed zstd support on nginx, which serves the page you’re reading right now. Details on how I did it, with how to compile dynamic modules, on…
Guide to Automatic SSL Certificate Renewal for Nginx and Docker
Not long ago, when the certificate for the hesapciyiz.com site I host on my own VPS expired, I woke up to an email in the middle of the night. Yes,…
SwiftDeploy: How I Built a Tool That Writes Its Own Infrastructure Files
Introduction As part of the HNG Internship Stage 4 DevOps track, I built SwiftDeploy — a declarative deployment CLI tool that generates Nginx and Do…