Creating a web server

This section presents a simple web server developed in Go to better understand the principles behind such applications. Although a web server programmed in Go can do many things efficiently and securely, if what you really need is a powerful web server that supports modules, multiple websites, and virtual hosts, then you would be better off using a web server such as Apache, Nginx, or Caddy that is written in Go. Those powerful web servers typically are in front of Go application servers.

You might ask why the presented web server uses HTTP instead of secure HTTP (HTTPS). The answer to this question is simple: most Go web servers are deployed as Docker images and are hidden behind web servers, such as Caddy and Nginx, that provide the secure HTTP operation part using the appropriate security credentials. It does not make any sense to use the secure HTTP protocol along with the required security credentials without knowing how, and under which domain name...