Mallias

The spirit of (small) community shines here, it would seem 😀

Yeah, I seriously considered traefik for that convenience alone! When I inevitably outgrow this setup, traefik is the next stop, for sure.

I’ll give you an example of my setup.

Every server has it’s own instance of Nginx Proxy Manager (not needed, but helps with using docker networking), then every service I run on docker, I just use docker networks to talk to the rproxy.

My network is designed such that all my externally available services are on one server, so I just forward 80 & 443 to that.

For every other service (not on docker), I just use 127.0.0.1 + port.

For services on other servers on my LAN, I use Internal IP + port.

Well, I’ve been self hosting for a few years now, haven’t really had the need to jump into a text config for NGINX yet (apart from the rare custom configs some services need, but those are still done in the GUI). Caddy has it’s draws, as does traefik, but I think it’s easier to learn the concepts with the ease of use a GUI offers!

I found Nginx Proxy Manager to be the easiest to configure when I was starting out my homelab! I think the GUI played a big part in that, but it’s also just pure NGINX under the hood, so when you get more comfortable with the concepts, you could easily transition to that for even lower overhead (welp, I just had a look at my docker stats, NPM is sitting at 3.2 MB of ram with ~10 proxy hosts, not sure how necessary that even is…)

Finally, the missing link! Can’t wait to see how it does performance wise!

As a repair technician, I would stay well away from foldables (the durability/parts availability ratio being my main concern). I have to say, though, the massive nerd in me is not happy at all…