Thanks for your comment. I’ve had Infomaniak for the past year but find the UI/UX annoying. Same with Mailbox which I used for a few months before that. I’ve just tried Fastmail and love it already. Does everything I wanted Infomaniak to do. Davx with auto configure, Google calendar sync. And like you say, the apps are slick.

Yeah, Caddy was working fine, but the issue was me tinkering with it meant having to reload Caddy for the updated config to work, and that would break any connections people were using for file transfers etc. Also, it isn’t as quick for reverse proxying file transfers.

Therefore trying to run private and public services through it was limiting when I was also trying to tweak it constantly for my homelab.

I’ve found Traefik to be better in that it auto reloads the config live as you edit it, and it’s been faster for file transfers on my 1Gbps fibre.

And now I’ve split my services to separate public/private reverse proxies, that takes the pressure of having to keep one proxy always live. Pangolin uses Traefik, and so do I for my direct services through my firewall, and that makes life easier when only dealing with one type of proxy service.

I too am using a Cloudflare tunnel for my public facing services (such as WordPress), and that also allows you to put the WP login page behind another auth login as well which is great for security, so I do also vouch for Cloudflare.

I’m using Pangolin for private services on a VPS.

Plus, I have one service that is direct to my home IP for file sharing to one particular remote IP that is the only service directly through my firewall.

Therefore I have 3 ways my services are accessed and this has been the game changer for me recently, as previously I tried to run all this through one Caddy reverse proxy directly to my router and it gets painfully fragile mixing public/private services through one bottleneck when you’re tinkering as a selfhoster. So splitting it up has helped massively.

Good tip with the Cloudflare alts though!

I’ve relied on a Wireguard VPN for remote access until recently, I’m now playing with Pangolin via a VPS. I question why I need public (private) access, but it seems cool to operate that way and allows family members easier access.