Scott recommends Caddy over Vercel's Portless for local reverse proxying, arguing that Caddy's maturity, feature set, and the fact that it is well-represented in AI training data make it the superior choice. ✦ AI generated
Scott Tolinski · Syntax · 2026-07-22 · original ↗
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Caddy has been around for a long time and it is battle tested and again um it's more full featured and AI is really good at writing Caddy files. And then you look at something like Vercel did that Zero Lang. It's like their their you know, AI language and it hasn't been touched in several weeks. Like it it's like they did that initial post and then forgot about it real quick.
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15:37running that you can assign different subdomains. >> Um I'm not I'm not a user of it. I prefer my my Caddy setup, but it's uh I know people are crazy about it. >> Portless is fine, but like hold but I think I think that's something to think about is the Vercel lab stuff is often times just kind of thrown up there. Um >> It's a like it's a lab.
15:59Like they're testing things. >> Yeah, and where Caddy has been around for a long time and it is battle tested and again um it's more full featured and AI is really good at writing Caddy files. And then you look at something like Vercel did that Zero Lang. It's like their their you know, AI language and it hasn't been touched in several weeks. Like it it's like they did that initial
16:25post and then forgot about it real quick. So it it I think there's a case to be made about >> I uh >> To what? To Portless? >> No, to Zero Lang. >> What? >> Yes. >> [laughter] >> Okay. Well, before that the last commit was three weeks two weeks ago or whatever. So >> don't know if it's if it's a serious or if it's just a labs project, which I
16:48think it is. So I wouldn't give them too much guff about that. They're certainly exploring and I think the Portless one is pretty stable. >> The point being is that if you're picking a tool for this, picking this this battle tested tool that has more features and is AI is like it's in the training data and all this stuff. Like just go with that. There's no reason to pick that the labs thing.
17:12>> Um also alternative to Tailscale is Cloudflare tunnels and Cloudflare one. Cloudflare tunnels allows you to poke it through out to the global internet, but then they also have Cloudflare, I think it's Cloudflare one. Yeah, here I've got the app on my phone here. So, when I have the I can't get it to focus. Just imagine seeing a Cloudflare application. There we go. So, when I have that turned on on any of