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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

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[–] ithilelda@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

It is a simple layer 7 proxy and nothing more. It is the simplest so it works. As a comparison, almost all other reverse proxies can handle layer 4 traffic.

and I don't miss the label feature of traefik at all. centralized config for an entrance gateway is so much easier to maintain and find security flaws. I think labeling would be useful only in production clusters with thousands of microservices that you absolutely need the reverse of control to get away from dependency hell. Otherwise, I advice against using such feature, not even with a caddy plugin. (I mean if you really need it, why not just use traefik...)