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Yeah, you’re probably right. I didn’t connect the dots that’s what you’d need here, my bad.

Ah, I see. I’ll check it out!

Yeah, I feel that. I’ve settled on telmate’s but there’s a few things I’ve had to implement as hacky post creation SSH edits on the config files, such as passing through the Intel GPU to my Jellyfin container.

I don’t have much actual experience with it but you can run arbitrary shell commands in at least cloud-init, the others should be able to do the same. Maybe that could work? Definitely better than manually running scripts, at least.

It’s not a feature I’ve used myself but I’m pretty sure you can create Jellyfin playlists and collections spanning different libraries, so that could work if you’re okay with some manual curation

I use Proxmox, running a mix of regular and NixOS based LXCs. One of those also runs Docker for simpler services.

Yup, traefik isn’t able to do any sort of serving itself so for anything more complex than a handful of ports you’re expected to use nginx or whatever webserver to serve what you need and then have traefik on top of that as a reverse proxy. Or at least that’s my understanding as a somewhat new user.

I think they’re saying they don’t have SSH access at all

I’ve been reading into k3s out of curiosity, which as I understand is supposed to be one of the simpler ones, and even as someone who works as a developer and maintains a small homelab, it just makes me feel utterly clueless lol. Which is to say, I’ll definitely be giving Nomad a good look.

Oh and if you do happen to have any other more newbie friendly suggestions, I’d love to hear about them!

It does list that as another possible meaning, if I’m reading the table correctly

Gotta love ISPs. I ended up getting myself a good router on my own and having it piggyback off the ISP provided one so I could actually change settings around. Not ideal but it’s something. As a bonus, my subnet always looks the same and whatnot, a godsend for self-hosting.

Btw, Tailscale raised the free tier limits a while ago and it’s now an even more generous 100 devices/3 users

Right, that’s a bummer. I’m guessing you don’t have enough access to turn off your router’s DHCP server so pihole can take over properly? If that’s the case, I guess you’d have to get another router and make your own subnet off the ISP one or something along those lines so you have more control, that’s kinda what my setup looks like at the moment.

I don’t have a guide at hand but I basically just set a wildcard DNS rewrite on AdGuard Home so that *.my.domain redirects to the IP running my reverse proxy. Since AdGuard is set up at the router level, everything goes through it so the proxy handles everything from there.
I can share specifics after I get home in a few hours if you need a hand, feel free to reach out.

Also consider there’s a plugin designed to change its config dynamically through docker labels sort of like Traefik, although I can’t say I’ve used it myself.

+1 for this, add Tailscale DNS or similar on top plus a local redirect and you have easy access to it all through the same unified FQDN no matter if local, remote through an exposed Caddy, or remote through your VPN.

I agree that Nextcloud is a pain in the ass most of the time but FWIW the official AIO + reverse proxy method has served me well. I run it in a proxmox LXC container so it’s pretty tidy, upgrades tend to work well and it doesn’t force its own reverse proxy/certificate management on me.

Man, I started with Apache back in the day which is just nightmarish to manage for simple projects imo, then moved to NGINX, which felt a bit better but still not super intuitive, then NPM, which did make it significantly more user friendly.
Then Caddy came along and swept me off my feet, I still can’t believe it’s as dead simple as it is lol. I tried Traefik for a while because it sounded super interesting and I do love the idea, but it brought a lot of the complexity back with it for admittedly very neat docker integration.
Went right back to Caddy after I moved away from docker as a whole and I couldn’t be happier, I just find it so pleasant to use. Just pure KISS goodness!

So I guess my ranking goes Caddy > Traefik > the rest