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From reddit selfhosted: What do you wish you knew from the start (www.reddit.com)
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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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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I switched to Dehydrated (with dns-01 challenge), but Certbot itself is fine, the problem is the Nginx integration that tries to automatically change your Nginx config files.

[–] Deemo@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Do you manually update the config every 3 months?

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

??? The location and the file name of the certificates don't change, so why would I have to do that?

On the contrary, before I disabled the certbot's Nginx integration, every three months certbot would "manage" to break my Nginx and I had to manually repair it.

I think we are not talking about the same thing. I mean the Certbot extension that automatically modifies the Nginx config files. A telltale sign are usually the comments "#managed by certbot” that it likes to leave behind all over your config files.

[–] Deemo@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I've only really use caddy and my only experience with ngnix is ngnix proxy manager (which isn't really true ngnix).

I wasn't sure if hot swapping certs (even with same name was possible, kinda thought you would to reload it upon cert change).

Also regarding cert bot I have only used it in manual mode so it's managed mode is a bit foreign.