This article discusses the author's experience setting up reverse proxies for self-hosted services, finding the process surprisingly straightforward despite extensive and often overwhelming documentation. It compares several popular options like Nginx, Traefik, Caddy, Envoy, SWAG, and HAProxy, ultimately recommending Caddy for its simplicity and features. It also touches on the relative ease of reverse proxy setup compared to configuring the services they front.
The article details the author's experience switching from NGINX to Traefik as a reverse proxy for Docker Compose applications, citing scalability and ease of management as key benefits. It explains what a reverse proxy is and highlights Traefik’s automatic configuration and SSL certificate renewal features.
