Traefik vs nginx: Why I Switched (And Where I Kept Both)
nginx is fine. But when your stack hits 20+ containers, 'fine' stops being enough. Here's how Traefik changed my routing workflow — and where nginx stayed.
nginx is fine. But when your stack hits 20+ containers, 'fine' stops being enough. Here's how Traefik changed my routing workflow — and where nginx stayed.
Ghost is good blogging software. It is fast, clean, and does not try to be everything. Setting it up yourself is also one of those tasks that sounds simple, involves several non-obvious decisions, and ends with you having learned something you did not expect to learn. This is how I
People ask me what a homelab is. I tell them it is the thing you build because you wanted to self-host one small thing, and three years later you are staring at a 20-core server running twenty-five Docker containers while explaining to your family why the internet went down because
Earlier this year I wrote about the day Hercules silently died twice before 4pm. The short version: the Linux OOM killer on the Proxmox host decided the 36GB QEMU process for my main VM was the most expendable thing on the machine, and acted accordingly. Twice. That post covered the
Traefik has one feature that makes it genuinely pleasant to work with: hot-reload. Edit a file in the dynamic/ directory, save it, and within seconds the new routes are live. No restart. No downtime. It’s the kind of thing that makes you feel like you have a proper setup.
