NGINX Introduces Native Support for ACME Protocol

Does this mean NGINX will finally catch up to Caddy when it comes to SSL/TLS?

I find that phrasing a little unfair, because except for the one thing (native ACME) I am very sure it can do everything else, and maybe better. I’ve not seen caddy in any big scale production setup (doesn’t mean it’s bad or that this doesn’t exist) but nginx is very old by now, and trustworthy and reliable. It just has some unwieldy config syntax and gotchas, but I found it to be a lot easier to configure for complicated things with a “normal” time investment, just not the 5min solution.

But yes, LE has won and native ACME is kind of tablestakes, and I replaced nginx in my private setup years ago because caddy has less moving parts, so it’s absolutely good.