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I saw this post today on Reddit and was curious to see if views are similar here as they are there.

  1. What are the best benefits of self-hosting?
  2. What do you wish you would have known as a beginner starting out?
  3. What resources do you know of to help a non-computer-scientist/engineer get started in self-hosting?
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (22 children)

2.What do you wish you would have known as a beginner starting out?

Caddy. Once you try Caddy there's no turning back to Nginx or Apache.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Silly question how safe are caddy plugins? (especially dns challenge modules like cloudflare, duckdns, etc).

https://github.com/caddy-dns https://github.com/caddy-dns/cloudflare/tree/master

Not sure if those plugins are covered by caddy's security disclosure policy

https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/security

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I maintain the DNS plugin for Vultr and I can say that it's "safe", but if you're worried you should check their source code.

I believe it's easier to have a vulnerability in the external provider's API (for example, caddy-dns/vultr uses govultr) than Caddy. But I wouldn't take things for granted if I was skeptical about these plugins.

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