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

  • lorentzEnglish
    5·
    4 days ago

    Nginx for my intranet because configuration is fully manual and I have complete control over it.

    Caddy for the public services on my vps because it handles cert renewal automatically and most of its configuration is magic which just works.

    It is unbelievable how shorter caddy configuration is, but on my intranet:

    1. I don’t want my reverse proxy to dial on internet to try to fetch new SSL certs. I know it can be disabled, but this is the default.
    2. I like to learn how stuff works, Nginx forces you to know more details but it is full of good documentation so it is not too painful compared to Caddy.
    • Oisteink@feddit.nlEnglish
      3·
      4 days ago

      I switched to caddy just for the certs. I get trusted certs on all my internal subdomains without maintenance.

      I use haproxy, nginx and caddy at work including a caddy instance with internal CA. 4 lines in config and its signed by our normal CA, so its trusted by all our devices.

      • lorentzEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        Yes, but it is a different cron job that needs to run, and you need to monitor it for failures. Caddy does everything out of the box, including retries.