I saw this post today on Reddit and was curious to see if views are similar here as they are there.

  1. What are the best benefits of self-hosting?
  2. What do you wish you would have known as a beginner starting out?
  3. What resources do you know of to help a non-computer-scientist/engineer get started in self-hosting?
  • JustMarkov@lemmy.mlEnglish
    162·
    2 months ago

    2.What do you wish you would have known as a beginner starting out?

    Caddy. Once you try Caddy there’s no turning back to Nginx or Apache.

    • ahal@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      I’ve been meaning to try Caddy, but I just can’t even imagine something simpler than NginxProxyManager.

    • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      LOL, as a noob I went with caddy, then traefik before settling on NPM. Ironically, all the “QoL” features people brag about just made base configs harder and lead to shit randomly failing.

      NPM has been solid as a rock, even if I have to do slightly more work, it’s more reliable and does what I want quicker and easier than the alternative.

      • xinayder@infosec.pubEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        I maintain the DNS plugin for Vultr and I can say that it’s “safe”, but if you’re worried you should check their source code.

        I believe it’s easier to have a vulnerability in the external provider’s API (for example, caddy-dns/vultr uses govultr) than Caddy. But I wouldn’t take things for granted if I was skeptical about these plugins.