Static Site Generators in Production

Caddy

Caddy makes HTTPS the default: write a hostname in the Caddyfile and it obtains, renews and serves a certificate with modern TLS settings. For self-hosted static sites that removes the most common source of outages, and its short configuration format removes most of the header and fallback mistakes that audits find in hand-written server configs.

The guides below take Caddy past a single site: several sites and wildcard preview subdomains on one server, testing against the staging certificate authority, persisting certificates across rebuilds, a complete security header set with a build-time CSP hash, and a load test against Nginx on identical machines.

Areas covered by the Caddy guides Three panels. Certificates: automatic HTTPS for several sites, wildcard previews and persistent storage. Headers: HSTS, CSP and permissions in reusable snippets. Choice: throughput, memory and configuration size against Nginx. What the Caddy guides cover Certificates several sites, one server wildcard previews persistent storage Headers reusable snippets build-time CSP hash tested per response Caddy or Nginx throughput and memory config size common mistakes
Every guide was measured on the same small VM.

Core Web Vitals Optimization for SSGs

Number of Caddy guides of each kind Vertical bars: How-tos 4, Fixes 0, Comparisons 1 and Concepts 0. Caddy guides by kind 4 How-tos 0 Fixes 1 Comparisons 0 Concepts
5 guides use Caddy in depth; each is listed below under the section it belongs to.

Production-Ready Deployment & CI/CD for SSGs

Topics with the most Caddy guides Horizontal bars, largest first: Self-Hosting Static Sites on S3, Nginx and Caddy 3, CSS and JavaScript Asset Optimization 1 and Security Headers and Hardening for Static Sites 1. Where Caddy comes up Self-Hosting Static Sites on S3, Nginx… 3 CSS and JavaScript Asset Optimization 1 Security Headers and Hardening 1
Topic pages give the wider context for each group; the numbers count only guides that use this tool in depth.

Often used with Caddy

  • nginx3 shared guidesSelf-hosted serving, compression and cache headers.
  • Eleventy1 shared guidesIncremental builds, image pipelines and the data cascade.
  • Cloudflare1 shared guidesPages and Workers hosting, cache rules and edge functions.