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> 1/4 price of comparable servers

Which servers?

Wondering the same thing... nginx has a commercial option, but does not force you to use it if your using it in a business environment... iis is only available on windows server, and that costs about 600 quid for a standard license. That’s a one off cost... so... it might be quarter of the cost of enterprise (3k give or take) but over the life time of the box, it would end up being more...

Caddy's new commercial licensing, like nginx, is completely optional as the actual source license continues to be Apache 2.0.

For any business running their own web servers, compiling Caddy themselves instead of utilizing the build server at caddyserver.com is a trivial step that also gives them greater control over the binary they end up using anyway.

Yea, but in the case of nginx, their binaries are Free full stop... it’s only extras or support that need license...

The most apparent comparison looks to be NGINX Plus, for which the lowest cost tier works out at over $200/month ($2,500/year) per instance.

https://www.nginx.com/products/buy-nginx-plus/

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