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I mean, use what you want. But caddy is significantly easier to configure. It additionally handles SSL and protects your proxy targets with zero configuration (by default) and supports live configuration reload via the admin interface. It's tits.
Here's my config: http://i.xno.dev/u/fc8N0n.png
Caddy is running a wildcard SSL cert, so once I've connected my box to cloudflare, I can setup a subdomain by simply adding it to my caddy config. No additional setup is required. It also works directly with docker, so if you install the
lemmy(name of the container) docker container, you can reverse_proxy by simply (assuming they're on the same docker network):That sounds more or less to be exactly what I'm doing with NPM currently. I don't see how it's easier to configure as all I did was fire up the NPM container, log in, and add my host targets.
NPM also handles SSL both standard http verification as well as DNS auth for wildcards.
Caddy can do the same and there is a steep learning curve but I switched about a year ago and only need to touch the config file when I add a host. Can even bring that config to a new server and it will stand up once it starts and picks up the config.