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From reddit selfhosted: What do you wish you knew from the start (www.reddit.com)
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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?
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[-] ahal@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

Out of curiosity, what's the benefit of splitting those?

[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It lets you change reverse proxy or run a website with TLS completely independently of the certbot. The certbot deals with obtaining certs and leaves them in a dir, and the proxies or webservers just take them from that dir. If the proxy container breaks the certbot still does its thing etc.

It also makes it easier to do stuff like run different proxies in paralel for different things, chain proxies (for instance if you need to use a VPS because you can't forward ports) and so on.

But it's all for advanced setups, for basic stuff I'd still go with NPM.

[-] ahal@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

Cool makes sense, thanks for the reply! And yeah, I don't think I'm quite there yet.

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