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is it better to use subdomains or paths? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 3 years ago by Sekoia@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I have a few selfhosted services, but I'm slowly adding more. Currently, they're all in subdomains like linkding.sekoia.example etc. However, that adds DNS records to fetch and means more setup. Is there some reason I shouldn't put all my services under a single subdomain with paths (using a reverse proxy), like selfhosted.sekoia.example/linkding?

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[–] gaurhoth@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago

You can certainly do it with paths, but it's generally cleaner and easier to do subdomains. Some apps don't like paths without additional setup and/or reverse proxy configuration because they hard-code redirects to specific paths.

In some cases (if you are hosting services both internal and externally), you'll want to configure a split brain DNS (a local DNS server that resolves internal host to internal IPs and external DNS resolves to public IPs).

Yes there's some setup with that, but once you really get into it -- you'll start automating that :) I have a script that reads all of my Traefik http routers via the rest API and updates my unbound DNS server automagically.