I use cron schedules to run scripts that backup my important stuff to s dedicated backup drive, then copies the backups to a different external drive, then upload the backups to a dedicated backup cloud storage account. Then it deletes any backups older than a month.

Fun idea. Seems like a lot of people are asking questions that have nothing to do with making a binary choice. I got a fair few “have you ever…?” questions that were about my personal life.

I ditched Plex for Jellyfin a while ago and am not a fan of Plex, but this is the silliest thing to complain about. First of all, just because they work for Plex doesn’t automatically make it a fake review. Certainly wouldn’t call it an unbiased one, but that doesn’t mean the review is fake.

Actual Budget has been awesome for my partner and me.

Nginx forwards all traffic correctly outside of the local network, so accessing docmost.example.com from outside local network works completely as expected, with certs and all.

Could you expound? My understanding of the goal here is that Adguard DNS catches my request for docmost.example.com and redirects it to my UNRAID server, which has Nginx listening for traffic. Nginx then directs to the appropriate IP and port.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Ping from PC to docmost.example.com: Pings fine, packet loss.

Ping from PC to 192.168.1.80: Pings fine, no packet loss.

Traceroute from PC to docmost.example.com: 1 hop, all <1 ms, to 192.168.1.80

Traceroute from PC to 192.168.1.80: 1 hop, all <1 ms

Ping from Nginx container to PC: Pings fine, no packet loss.

Traceroute from Nginx container to PC: Hops to 172.18.0.1 in <1ms, and then it times out on subsequent hops.

I decided to try to traceroute from my PC to 172.18.0.1 and 172.18.0.9 which is the actual IP of the Nginx container according to UNRAID, and in both cases they hop to 192.168.1.254 which is my router, and then all subsequent hops time out.

Do you know why pings would go through without any loss but traceroutes would fail? Any idea what’s going on here?

Couldn’t I troubleshoot this by using a different browser, or even incognito mode? Because when I do that, it still times out. I appreciate the explanation and advice. I’m not too worried about it at this stage only because my service I am trying to get working, Docmost, will really only be accessed from my desktop. Plus, as I said in OP, I am enjoying learning about this stuff and want to figure out why this specifically isn’t working for educational purposes, even if I switch to a different solution.

It does not look like NAT loopback will be an option for me due to router/ISP.

Thanks for the ping suggestion. Copied from another comment of mine:

When I ping docmost.example.com, looks like Adguard is correctly catching it and routing it to an internal IP 192.168.1.80, which is exactly what I’ve told it to do. I tried to ping anothersub.example.com as well, and it was pinging my duckdns address and timing out. So when I ping, it looks like the packets get through but when I try to access it from a browser, it times out?

https://puu.sh/Ks252/fa872908d9.png

When I try to connect to docmost.example.com, I do not see anything come up on my proxy-host-14_access.log, proxy-host-14_error.log, or error.log. Just nothing at all. When I access from outside the network, entries in the access log show up as expected from the IP I access it from (in this case, my phone off WIFI).

I pinged 192.168.1.85 from within my nginx container and looks like it communicated just fine. https://puu.sh/Ks29s/367c0b6144.png

Thanks for the ping suggestion. When I ping docmost.example.com, looks like Adguard is correctly catching it and routing it to an internal IP 192.168.1.80, which is exactly what I’ve told it to do. I tried to ping anothersub.example.com as well, and it was pinging my duckdns address and timing out. So when I ping, it looks like the packets get through but when I try to access it from a browser, it times out?

https://puu.sh/Ks252/fa872908d9.png

(Also, I do not think NAT loopback will be possible with my router/ISP from some reading up I just did)

No kidding. Steam survey definitely does not agree with this definition of average lmao

Unraid was worth every cent.

I self host many services without any coding languages under my belt. I use Unraid because I found it user friendly for a newb like me. The most important skills I needed were good data backup habits just in case I messed something up, a willingness to read and learn, and the persistence to try more than once.

I use nginx manager in its own docker container on my unraid server. Was pretty simple to set up all things considered. I would call myself better with hardware than software but not a complete newb and I got it running with minimal headache.

Unraid is pretty simple to use. It has made setting up my services easy with just a little bit of googling for trouble shooting.

That’s precisely the intent behind the feature.

Have also had good experience using namecheap for years.