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?
  • Zeoic@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Not sure I agree about proxy manager. Anything you need to access is in the gui. You can easily add advanced configs to the entries. Been using it for 5 or so years, and there hasnt been anything I was missing from using straight nginx before that.

    • towerful@programming.dev
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      3 months ago

      The benefit of using config files is easy version management via git.
      Makes it easy to rebuild from scratch and easy to rollback a change that breaks something