I’ve upgraded one of my Discourse forum servers, so to open UDP 443 rather than only TCP in the IONOS Cloud Panel firewall (i’m from GB). I don’t use CDN because this particular forum isn’t big user number, but has lots of categories. I had some difficulty in ensuring the IP geos through nginx cor…

Thanks, I hadn’t seen that PR. That’s interesting - my setup is slightly different in that I’ve kept Discourse’s nginx web server in place and run Caddy separately in Docker Compose in front of it, mainly to provide HTTP/3 at the edge. There is one small Discourse-side change: I added a persistent a…

Just a correction/clarification to what I said above. When I originally described the result as a: [image] Ethsim2: slightly more mobile-friendly forum, part of what I had noticed was that the initial round trip when opening the iOS Safari PWA had previously felt too slow. However, I now r…

[image] Ethsim2: mainly to provide HTTP/3 at the edge. You can also do it from Vanilla Nginx: https://quic.nginx.org/

Thanks - I checked the nginx currently shipped inside my Discourse app container, and you’re right that it can provide HTTP/3 directly: nginx 1.26.3-3+deb13u7 OpenSSL 3.5.6 --with-http_v3_module So direct HTTP/3 from Discourse’s existing nginx is definitely a genuine alternative. One reason I may…

Caddy in front of app’s Nginx via Docker Compose

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) August 15, 2026, 5:37pm 2

FWIW, there’s this PR: Add Caddy web server template as nginx alternative - Pull Request #952 - discourse/discourse_docker - GitHub

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