I have a few selfhosted services, but I’m slowly adding more. Currently, they’re all in subdomains like linkding.sekoia.example etc. However, that adds DNS records to fetch and means more setup. Is there some reason I shouldn’t put all my services under a single subdomain with paths (using a reverse proxy), like selfhosted.sekoia.example/linkding?

  • Jeena@jemmy.jeena.net
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    1 year ago

    I started with paths because I didn’t want to pay for a expensive SSL certificate for each service I’m running (now with letsencrypt no problem anymore). But that turned out to be a terrible idea. Once I wanted to host a service on a different server the problems started. With subdomain you just point your DNS to the correct IP address and that’s it. With paths you have to proxy everything through your one vhost and it get’s really messy. And to be honest most services expect you to run them on the root directory and not a path.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, this is it. The only exception would be if you’re running everything off a single non-virtualized, non-containerized server, which is a bad idea for a whole host of reasons.