I see so many posts and people who run NGINX as their reverse proxy. Why though? There’s HAProxy and Apache, with Caddy being a simpler option.

If you’re starting from scratch, why did you pick/are you picking NGINX over the others?

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It’s pretty good, innit?

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Why is their question, so why is it pretty good?

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Nah, their question is why do so many people use it. And the answer is because it’s pretty good.

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Innit?

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Very helpful

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You want to play this game?

I can create new posts all night long

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You want to access your server under CG-NAT from the outside or what is the point??

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You can do that with Wireguard and NAT.

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Because everyone told me to

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Because Nginx Proxy Manager exists.

And also because for me it started from web hosting where Apache and Nginx dominate and later because of many easy to understand example configs from the net including many “docker letsencrypt” examples.

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Very much became it exist. Its way simpler to do in the GUI.

Did not have to learn anything specific, and can work for things not in docker containers too, like the Nextcloud Snap.

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And it makes it very easy to get and maintain certificates.

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