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Web servers & reverse proxies, ranked by value — not ad spend

Serve and route traffic with automatic HTTPS and a config file you can read in one sitting.

No paid placement. Ranked by evidence against four principles: transparency, value density, privacy, efficiency. How we rank →
Our pick
Caddy — Web server with automatic HTTPS 5.0
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1 Caddy
Web server with automatic HTTPS
 5.0 self-host ✓
2 Traefik
Cloud-native reverse proxy with auto-discovery
 4.3 self-host ~

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