I had a poor experience with NPM which turned me to SWAG, it worked, but was a tad slow. Moved to Traefik and haven’t looked back.
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I use and love nginx.
Maybe a bit more old fashioned than more modern solutions, but steady solid and versatile. I use it as reverse proxy ad well as proxy for php stuff and more.
I like Zoraxy it has a lot of features, like Zerotier integration, status monitoring etc and a clean UI
Runs fine for my needs and fully replaced NPM for me 😊
You can run it in docker or as a single binary directly
This the main reason I switched from traefik, I can have certificates on all my internal stuff and not just on my docker host. I personally love NPM but maybe I'll give NPMPlus a try, I have never heard of it.
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I use Synology integrated reverse proxy, stupidly simple and always works for me (only if IPv6 doesn't fuck up itself, I can't fallback to IPv4 because that is CGNATED), if I am missing features that other options have I would like to know :)
I've looked at it but never actually given the Synology proxy a go despite using their DNS server. Does it do auto certificate renewal?
Have you considered using a Cloudflare tunnel to bypass the CGNAT? You can do that into a proxy or straight into the service.
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having tried many in past, i always go back to haproxy. it has everything required as proxy and load balancer while also being very efficient.
I used NPM, It was pretty solid
Then I changed headspace and now I run SearXNG through cloudflare, and tailscale everything that doesn't need to be public.
Why shouldn't stuff be public?
Zero Day Vulnerabilities. Smaller surface area, smaller threat.
If I surface something that runs PHP or Java under the hood and a new zero day is found in PHP / Java and my project or product doesn't get updated, I'm at risk.
When zero days come out, people script against it.
Things that need to be public are worth it. But anything that's just you looking at it? The thing with Tailscale, you can just let it run on your phone / laptop. If you don't use an exit node in your house, you won't even know you're on VPN.
NPM was the first one that worked for me. I used a YouTube tutorial. I tried Nginx and Caddy, but couldn't figure them out. For context, I try to run anything I can out of Docker, which adds some complexity I think. I must not have been doing the templates correctly or something.
I plan on trying to go for Nginx or Caddy later, but right now NPM works wonders for my use case.
I really like Zoraxy. Similar to NPM but it's its own thing and I like it a lot more
I know how to use raw nginx/Caddy/traefik to do it, but I find the WebUI and all the extra features Zoraxy has to be very convenient and easy to use.
I highly recommend npm. It's also the only one I've used, so please keep that in mind.