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Caddy seems to good to be true? I just set it up and it works perfect, straight out of the box (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by Zestyclose_Car1088@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum

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This seems too straightforward, what's the catch?

Like how secure is it? Should I be turning it off (and disabling the port forwarding) when not using it?

Do I need any additional security? Mainly just want to use it for Jellyfin

Thanks

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[–] autogyrophilia@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (17 children)

The documentation it's surprisingly bad at explaining common patterns of use.

It is also a bit thicker compared to nginx or HAproxy.

[–] EagerDevourer@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Really? My experience was the opposite. I found everything I needed intheir docs rather quickly.

I guess it's true they don't have as many basic examples as nginx, but I'd take their lack of example over the mess an nginx config can become any day.

[–] brody5895@alien.top 2 points 1 year ago

Maybe just cause I'm still learning this stuff but I found the docs fairly challenging to comprehend too. Now that I get the basics though, it's pretty easy looking back

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