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I have been self-hosting for a while now with Traefik. It works, but I'd like to give Nginx Proxy Manager a try, it seems easier to manage stuff not in docker.

Edit: btw I'm going to try this out on my RPI, not my hetzner vps, so no risk of breaking anything

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I mean, the basic config file for Caddy is 1 line, and gives you Let's Encrypt by default. The entire config file for a reverse proxy can be as few as 3 lines:

my.servername.net {
   reverse_proxy 127.0.0.1:1234
}

It's a single executable, and a single 3-line file. Caddy is an incredible piece of software.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Ive got a basic workflow for nginx proxy manager now so this isnt super useful but good god that's exactly what i wish nginx was.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

When I was researching reverse proxies I first stumbled upon nginx and traefik and especially nginx seemed a bit intimidating. As someone who hadn't done it before I was worried if I'd do it right. Then I found caddy and yeah just used a threeliner like that in config and that was that. Simple and easy to get it right.

I've since switched to having my stuff behind wireguard instead of reverse proxy, but I keep caddy around so I can just spin it back up if I want to access Jellyfin on someone's tv or something.