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Caddy looks great. I'm used to:

1. generate html from markdown 2. copy the generated html to /var/www 3. Let nginx serve (and cache) it

Would caddy fulfil these requirements as well? Is it as performant as nginx?

Yes, this would work with Caddy without you needing to generate the markdown yourself or copy the generated html to /var/www. You simply edit the .md files and Caddy automatically generates the HTML on the fly. I don't have any benchmarks compared to nginx but I'm using Caddy on multiple personal projects and I don't have any complaints about Caddy's performance.

Does Caddy support generating HTML files? I use Hugo for a few websites that I host on S3 + CloudFront and am very happy with AWS handling the back-end part this stack, and wouldn't want to switch to a server that I would now need to manage.

Caddy doesn't emit static files in this case, instead it on-the-fly transforms your .md files on disk into HTML output that it serves directly to the client. Caddy is a server first, which includes a template engine for convenience.

If your workflow with static files cached by a CDN already works for you, then this is probably not going to help you.

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