Self Hosting Reverse Proxy Servers

[@phenixphyre666]

I really hope that CJ makes a video on how to setup Cady. I am really interested in learning how to setup a reverse proxy

[@wesleycoder]

Never used Caddy, but I remember seeing it one day at an old co-worker setup and never remembered to check it out, neither remembered the name for me to search later. It's awesome to finally see it again here. I've used traefik within truenas, but found it a bit convoluted to bring into a local dev setup. Caddy seems to be simpler, definitely will try it next weekend.

[@Protoscribe]

Caddy is great, just drop in one of the many config files or use the API...

[@codeman99-dev]

traefik makes me nervous because of the need for the docker socket being mounted in the same container where I'm exposing everything.

[@axMf3qTI]

I used that in the past. No doubt it got better but It felt like I was busy with the config al the time. Also remember setting up ssh was a pain. Right now I like Caddy.

[@Stoney_Eagle]

I proxy my vite dev server to a dev subdomain, it made working with my designer remotely soo easy.

[@luiginica]

@syntaxfm Wes, how did you managed to run Coolify on a mac? It' snot supported and brew also is not capable to install it. Please help :)

[@twd2]

just a question, I have a hosting in a droplet digitalocean ubuntu based and I have got my SSL certificates from cloudflare for my domain, and using Nginx with my container database to replace container IP with mine, is that right thing to do so !!!

[@mrlectus]

You can redirect based on cookie with code

[@Callumkloos]

How can you get a hetzner for $5 a month? and Coolify itself costs $5 a month as well right?

[@syntaxfm]

Coolify is free. It only costs money if you use their self hosted. For Hetzner go ARM servers and the cost/perf is outrageous

[@Callumkloos]

@@syntaxfm Thats sick I had no idea, I had assumed it was all $50-$100 rented servers. Will check out!

[@justinportell2774]

@@syntaxfm Aren't the Hetzner ARM servers only Helsinki? How bad is the performance hit if you're located in the US?

[@greendsnow]

Caddy needs to be build separately for the plugin that traefik already has like rate limiting and ipallowlist. Also Coolify has many problems with tweaking your reverse proxy settings (like ipallowlist)

[@Protoscribe]

Honestly I have never run into any issues with Caddy as of yet and I have been running it for years, even as a load balancer. What's wrong with building? Building means you have no bloat in something you likely need to run like wild fire does... They have a builder on the website if I am not mistaken, and its so easy and quick to build a Caddy image when needed. Each to their own and most solutions do the same thing anyway so its down to taste. Some people like to take a cable car up a mountain to see the view while others would rather hike it. But building from source is always great...

[@greendsnow]

@@Protoscribe Caddy is ok on its own. Things get complicated when it's used in tandem with coolify. You can't just tweak things that easily.

[@Protoscribe]

@@greendsnow That may well be the case, but I don't use Coolify to host things and it comes with Traefik setup, so I don't think there is a need for Caddy in that sense. Would be nice if Caddy was an option instead of Traefik because of its ease of use and API. But in terms of running infrastructure from bare to containers, Caddy works wonders for me

[@greendsnow]

@@Protoscribe it comes with caddy option. You can switch it to caddy under proxy settings

[@darknezx9542]

I remember thinking exactly like yall, how do I pronounce traefik?!

[@russcarroll9868]

Where did Scott move to that was 5 euro?

[@syntaxfm]

Hetzner

[@kissu_io]

When a home automation episode? 😁

[@MissMyMusicAddiction]

caddy was stupid-simple to set up and use. i had no idea what i was doing, going in. it's been running for years, without any intervention from me. it might have taken 30 minutes, total, to install *nix on the pc, then caddy, and maybe ten minutes to learn how to configure caddy, then configure it.

[@hoshi411]

I'm thankful that you guys tried to Explain this But it's going to leave the average user running into walls. The average user doesn't realize that Most web apps require a root domain. So for most cases... You're going to need a new domain for each app. It's just how it is. Reverse proxy just gets in the way. It's less confusing to just tell people to either use tailscale funnels or Cloudflare tunnels (sidecars) for their app containers. reverse proxy really is a bad system these days 😟 Seriously, it's just going to confuse the average user.