Hi, I recently acquired a pretty solid VPS for a good price, and right now I use it to run Caddy for two personal sites. When I moved to Lemmy I found about this awesome community and it got me really interested in selfhosting. I won’t be asking for tips on what to selfhost (but feel free to add what you use), there’s a lot of posts about it to look through, but I was wondering: how are you accessing your selfhosted stuff? I would love to have some sort of dashboard with monitoring and statuses of all my services, so should I just setup WireGuard and then access everything locally? I wanted to have it behind a domain, how would I achieve it? E.g. my public site would be at example.com and my dashboard behind dash.example.com, but only accessible locally through a VPN.
I started to learn Docker when setting up my Caddy server, so I’m still really new to this stuff. Are there any major no-no things a newbie might do with Docker/selfhosting that I should avoid?
I’m really looking forward to setting everything up once I have it planned out, that’s the most fun part for me, the troubleshooting and fixing all the small errors and stuff. So, thank you for your help and ideas, I can share my setup when it’s done.
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some sort of dashboard with monitoring and statuses of all my services
See if Uptime Kuma suits your needs.
Are there any major no-no things a newbie might do with Docker/selfhosting that I should avoid?
Allow password based SSH authentication, you should look into key based authentication
I wanted to have it behind a domain, how would I achieve it?
Use a reverse proxy (like caddy) which serves different content based on domain name.
The major think noobs tend to mess up with docker is not setting up volumes properly so when you get rid of the instance, you lose all of your data.
I also highly recommend docker-compose for ease of use.
Id recommend looking up security best practices for docker as well. Things like setting a user id & gid for the containers add an additional layer of security.
Oh and make sure you get your containers from trustworthy sources.
Don’t expose anything from your local network to the internet (unless you want multiple new sysadmins in your house). Try tailscale instead.