Caddy vs. Traefik vs. Nginx Proxy Manager for a Home Lab
When you host several services at home, a reverse proxy gives them one front door. It receives requests for names such as photos.example.net and forwards each request to…
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How to Automatically Create Versioned Backups When Files Change on Linux
On Linux, a file-watching program detects changes to selected files and starts a backup. Restic, a backup program, saves a snapshot: a record of those files at a…
Read articleHow to Protect Self-Hosted Services With mTLS Client Certificates in Caddy
If you run a self-hosted service behind Caddy, you can require each connecting device to prove its identity with a certificate. Mutual TLS, or mTLS, adds that check…
Read articleHow to Securely Expose Self-Hosted Services Through a Reverse Proxy
When you make a self-hosted website or service available over the internet, a reverse proxy can provide one controlled entry point. A reverse proxy is a server that…
Read articleHow to Simplify a Caddyfile With Snippets and Wildcard Certificates
When you run several services behind Caddy, each hostname often needs the same settings, such as compression or security headers, but sends requests to a different service. A…
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