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.
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.