rpxy vs sozu pros and cons

[akostadinov]

Hello, I was wondering about sozu pros and cons.

For started I don't see sozu supporting lets encrypt OOB at least.

But I see that it sandboxes workers somehow to prevent exploits. Not sure how effective that is though.

Would appreciate any other points. So far also rpxy seems to have a rather simple configuration that I can see in the very readme. This is unlike other rust and non-rust alternatives where I couldn't understand how their configuration worked within the first minute.

[junkurihara]

Hi @akostadinov,

Ok, here are pros and cons rpxy against sozu I am thinking of at this point.

• As mentioned in [question] How does this benchmark against Sozu? #164, HTTP/3 support should be one of rpxy's advantage. As far as I know, there currently exist not many reverse proxies supporting HTTP/3, e.g., Caddy, Nginx, Traefik.... And possibly rpxy is the only one written in Rust.

• As far as I checked sozu code last year, rpxy can work both on aarch64 and amd64, sozu can be built only on amd64 though.

• As you mentioned, rpxy have no sandboxing and does not limit worker threads (technically possible though). I also think it can be done with a certain runtime like docker.

• One big disadvantage against sozu is that rpxy is being developed and maintained only by a community and has no commercial support.