I pay $149 a month for a server, I was using Nginx + nghttp2 (for gRPC), until last month when I switched to Caddy (LE benefits).
I'm not familiar with Go, so I can't modify source to get the plugins I like.
I read the announcement page, and can't find what the cost is, but it doesn't matter. My work doesn't count as non-x, because I want to someday make an extra income from it.
I've found Caddy to be a cool and interesting project, but guess I'll be switching Nginx back on soon enough :(
The Caddy source code is Apache licensed, so if you build from source, you're good to go. That's the point: we know there are many projects that are just a little side income here and there, so you should be able to build your own Caddy binary from source and use it.
If your commercial venture isn't profitable yet, we will try to help you bootstrap. Just email us, sales@lightcodelabs.com and we'll see what we can do.
That's a pretty big if. The one time I had to compile the server from source (to help you test a bugfix), I had the Go toolchain installed (which not everyone does) and I still couldn't figure out how to compile with some of the plugins I wanted. I gave up after 30 minutes of not getting anywhere, IIRC.
I think this move has lost you a lot of goodwill from people.
>a pretty big if. The one time I had to compile the server from source...couldn't figure out how to compile with some of the plugins
And there's the rub: even for as smart as lots of HN readers are (and, likely, as most Caddy users are), why are you forcing folks to do something that isn't standard? Why force people to go about awkward, ugly manual steps to avoid something that didn't even exist a few hours ago?
Loads of incredibly tech folks on HN (and that would be interested in Caddy to start with). Yet most of us explicitly do not "build from source" most of the time: it's too susceptible to breakage; doesn't play nicely with `yum upgrade`; etc.
Can we "build from source"? Sure.
But why should we have to to avoid something you've added - apparently - just to assuage your sponsors?
Charge for it. That's cool - I pay for quality stuff.
I'm not familiar with Go, so I can't modify source to get the plugins I like.
I read the announcement page, and can't find what the cost is, but it doesn't matter. My work doesn't count as non-x, because I want to someday make an extra income from it.
I've found Caddy to be a cool and interesting project, but guess I'll be switching Nginx back on soon enough :(