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How Caddy trended on Hacker News

Caddy was mentioned 5,617 times on Hacker News between 2008 and 2026, peaking in Sep 2017 with 207 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often Caddy appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

Total mentions
5,617
Peak month
Sep 2017 (207)
First seen
2008
2008201120142017202020232026
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Top Hacker News stories about Caddy

  1. 1.Show HN: Caddy 2 778 points · 240 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
  2. 2.Caddy – The Ultimate Server with Automatic HTTPS 568 points · 227 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
  3. 3.35M Hot Dogs: Benchmarking Caddy vs. Nginx 399 points · 143 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
  4. 4.Caddy Proposal: Permanently change all proprietary licensing to open source 357 points · 76 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
  5. 5.Caddy – HTTP/2 Web Server with Automatic HTTPS 308 points · 79 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
  6. 6.Show HN: Caddy-SSH 280 points · 131 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
  7. 7.Caddy Server Is Acquired By Apilayer 272 points · 113 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
  8. 8.Show HN: Caddy v2.5.0 269 points · 112 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
  9. 9.Next Steps for the Caddy Project Maintainership 232 points · 105 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
  10. 10.Show HN: Caddy, a cross-platform HTTP/2 web server 208 points · 87 comments · 2015 · discuss on HN
  11. 11.Caddy 0.10 Released 190 points · 122 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
  12. 12.Caddy 2.8 179 points · 75 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN

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