I did the last one. Bought a domain for $5 per year from cloudflare and used a cloudflared tunnel to direct traffic to Caddy (reverse proxy). Set up everything as deny-by-default, requiring log in to access things like sonarr, and let things like Jellyfin and Immich bypass the login requirement. Took a bit to get it all figured out, but it worked.

There is also a way to use the cloudflared tunnel for free that gives you a domain as well (sort of anyways).

All of that is run via docker containers, minus the

Documentation on all of this is fragmented and a challenge to figure out. Happy to help anyone who wants to message me about it.

I took this a step further as I use a wireguard tunnel to make use of my router level ad blocking. So I added an entry for my domain to route back to caddy and serve it all locally. This is proving to be a challenge due to the way some browsers handle forced https, but I'm making due.

I had been using duck.ai for a while and found it to be a frustrating experience. Switched to free Claude and ended up with way better answers and a better experience overall. Still made a couple mistakes, but not nearly as many as duck. My only complaint is the limitation on the length of the sessions for the free version.

How is perplexity in that dept?

The current config routes through the cloudflared tunnel so no ports are open externally at the moment, so that's nice, but yea, I'd have to imagine there's some documentation out there for caddy.

Caddy has been a pain, though, so I might give one of the others a try. Thanks for the tips!

I've debated setting up Authelia or something similar because cloudflare is sooo slow to load their login page, but haven't landed on anything yet... Plus I worry I set something up wrong and expose my network

Unfortunate typo...

Ha! Well then! Lol