Hello people, I recently rented a vps server from OVH and I want to start hosting my own piefed instance and a couple other services. I am running debian 13 with docker, and I have nginx proxy manager almost set up. I want to set up subdomains so when I do social.my.domain it will go to my piefed instance, but how do I tell the machine to send piefed traffic to this subdomain and joplin traffic (for example) to another domain? Can I use nginx/docker natively for that or do I have to install another program. Thanks for the advice.
It’s called a Reverse Proxy. The most popular options are going to be Nginx, Caddy, Traefik, Apache (kinda dated, but easy to manage), or HAProxy if you’re just doing containers.
FWIW I don’t find Apache dated at all. It’s mature software, yes, but it’s also incredibly powerful and flexible, and regularly updated and improved. It’s probably not the fastest by any benchmark, but it was never intended to be (and for self-hosting, it doesn’t need to be). It’s an “everything and the kitchen sink” web server, and I don’t think that’s always the wrong choice. Personally, I find Apache’s litlte-known and perhaps misleadingly named Managed Domains (mod_md/MDomain) by far the easiest and clearest way to automatically manage and maintain SSL certificates, it’s really nice and worth looking into if you use Apache and are using any other solution for certificate renewal.
What makes you say that? From my experience、HAProxy a very competent, flexible, performant and scalable general proxy. It was already established when Docker came on the scene. The more container-oriented would be Traefik (or Envoy).
HAProxy is not meant for complex routing or handling of endpoints. It’s a simple service for Load Balancing or proxying alone. All the others have better features otherwise.
More concretely…? What cursed endpoints is this too simple for?
https://docs.haproxy.org/3.2/configuration.html#http-request
https://docs.haproxy.org/3.2/configuration.html#7
https://docs.haproxy.org/3.2/configuration.html#11
What is an example of a “Better feature” relevant here?
For starters: Rails, PHP, and passthrough routing stacks like message handlers and anything that expects socket handling. It’s just not built for that, OR session management for such things if whatever it’s talking to isn’t doing so.
It seems like you think I’m talking smack about HAProxy, but you don’t understand it’s real origin or strengths and assume it can do anything.
It can’t. Neither can any of the other services I mentioned.
Chill out, kid.