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I see so many posts and people who run NGINX as their reverse proxy. Why though? There's HAProxy and Apache, with Caddy being a simpler option.

If you're starting from scratch, why did you pick/are you picking NGINX over the others?

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[-] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 years ago

Why is their question, so why is it pretty good?

[-] baduhai@sopuli.xyz 17 points 2 years ago

Nah, their question is why do so many people use it. And the answer is because it's pretty good.

[-] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago
[-] Neon@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

You want to play this game?

I can create new posts all night long

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