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Thanks for your help! It's very much appreciated. I was thinking I might want to use this VPS for an occasional OwnCast stream and as a SyncThing target, so it sounds like I'll need a reverse proxy. Any recommendations on something relatively easy to use? I've seen people mention ngnix, traefik, caddy and a few others, but I'm not sure which would integrate nicely with ESS. Also, I appreciate the heads up about the helm commands. Definitely important info to have!
You're welcome!
I use https://nginxproxymanager.com/ for my reverse proxy. It doesn't exactly integrate with ESS, but it's not super challenging to set up proxy hosts for the domains (you can specify multiple domain names in one Proxy Host if they all point to the same host/port).
I find it nice because I can manage it via a web portal, but it's on my home LAN. Depending on how you access your VPS this might be less convenient than using one of the other options, but I don't have much experience with the others.
I set up Let's Encrypt certs to automatically renew for the Matrix domains, pointed them all at the ESS host server and port, and then enabled Websockets Support. That last bit is critical, or things will simply not work correctly, especially calls.
I'll review the docs and give this a shot either this evening or tomorrow. Thanks again for pointing me in the right direction!