#networking

Open Source

Caddy: The Web Server That Does HTTPS for You — and the Plugin Rebuild You Must Accept

Caddy is a 75k-star, Apache-2.0 web server whose automatic HTTPS changed the industry — every feature ships in the free build, no paid tier. A 5,000-word teardown of what it delivers, the xcaddy plugin rebuild model, multi-instance storage coordination, ACME rate limits, the single-maintainer bus factor, and exactly where your certificates go.

2026-09-19 71 views

Open Source

AdGuard Home: The Self-Hosted DNS Filter That Blocks Ads on Every Device You Own — Even the Ones You Can't Install Anything On

Browser extensions only protect the browser. AdGuard Home moves filtering down to DNS, where every device on your network is covered — a 36k-star GPL-3.0 Go binary with encrypted DNS and DHCP built in. Here is what it blocks, what it cannot block, and the one setting that quietly sends your data to AdGuard.

2026-09-13 77 views

Open Source

Traefik: The Reverse Proxy That Configures Itself While You Sleep

Traefik is the MIT-licensed reverse proxy with 64,000+ stars that discovers your containers and routes to them automatically, with no restart and no hand-edited config. Here's how it works, what the paid tiers really gate, and why debugging it can hurt.

2026-09-08 67 views

# networking

Caddy: The Web Server That Does HTTPS for You — and the Plugin Rebuild You Must Accept

AdGuard Home: The Self-Hosted DNS Filter That Blocks Ads on Every Device You Own — Even the Ones You Can't Install Anything On

Traefik: The Reverse Proxy That Configures Itself While You Sleep