Caddy - Tech Roads

Get ready for heavy traffic: Adding a Varnish cache to a production Docker stack

All bloggers dream of the day that their site has an article that goes viral, reaching the front page of Reddit, a viral Tweet, or FB share. I've had it happen, and believe me it's an awful, awful feeling when your small VPS crashes, while 30 hits a second bounce off into oblivion.

Docker

Matomo + Apache killed my server. Then Matomo + Nginx killed my server.

When accessing the Matomo console, the VPS memory usage spikes, and kills the server. I suspect Apache is the memory hog.

Caddy

Building a Caddy container stack for easy HTTPS with Docker and Ghost

I'm building a Caddy-stack to serve up HTTPS sessions, with a Ghost back end, using Docker containers, orchestrated with Docker Compose. You'll easily be able to replace the Ghost back end with other container-based apps such as Nginx or Wordpress.