Hugo + Caddy #
Hugo and Caddy are modern, lightweight tools designed to simplify website development and hosting with speed, security, and ease of use at their core.
Hugo is an open-source static site generator built in Go, known for its incredible speed in building websites. It allows developers to create content-driven sites using Markdown, templates, and data files, compiling everything into a static HTML structure that can be deployed anywhere. Hugo’s strength lies in its performance, flexibility, and the ability to generate thousands of pages in seconds, making it ideal for blogs, documentation sites, and portfolio pages.
On the other hand, Caddy is a powerful, general-purpose web server also written in Go, celebrated for its automatic HTTPS configuration and simple, human-readable configuration file format (Caddyfile). Caddy is often used as a reverse proxy, file server, or standalone web server and is designed to be secure by default with built-in TLS management via Let’s Encrypt.
When paired together, Hugo and Caddy create an efficient and secure pipeline: Hugo generates the static content, and Caddy serves it with minimal configuration and built-in security features. This combination is particularly appealing to developers and sysadmins who value simplicity, performance, and low overhead in their web infrastructure.