Choosing Hosting and a Production Checklist: Nginx, IIS, Caddy, Containers and PaaS
The hosting choice is decided first by what the team can operate, then by the number of services, deploy frequency and cost; a Linux VM with Nginx, IIS, Caddy, Traefik, YARP, PaaS and containers are different answers to the same questions. We try Caddy with seven lines of config and an active health check, and a ten-item pre-go-live check script catches a health endpoint invisible from outside and a missing default server on 443 in the seventh post's config.
8 Nov 2026
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