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+title = "April 2024"
+date = 2024-02-14
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+tags = ["self-hosting", "caddy", "servers"]
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+
+Woops, missed March. Oh well, it is my blog so whatever.
+
+Anyway I've been working a lot on building up my local server with services that I want to use.
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+These last two months I doubled my server count (up to 2) and starting hosting more services.
+
+## Immich
+
+Pre-March I was hosting an image service called [Immich](https://immich.app/). This my start of synching and storing
+my own photos (though I still use Google Photos) to try to move away from cloud services and own my data.
+
+I can't recommend Immich enough. It was really easy to spin up and they even had a tool to upload your photos from
+Google.
+
+## Git Server
+Even though I use Github for most of my repo hosting, was interested in starting up my own server. I found out
+about [Gitea](https://about.gitea.com/) and started hosting it to learn more on how to set up a server
+to try hopefully convice work to self host our own services.
+
+Gitea is pretty nice (kinda similar to Gitlab) but runs as a single executable (written in Go).
+
+## Reverse Proxy
+To expose any services to the public I needed to have something between those servers and the public web.
+I've used Nginx before but was kinda annoyed with it and wanted something fire and forget. Espcially with
+SSL certs. This lead me to [Caddy](https://caddyserver.com/).
+
+Besides Immich this is the bees knees. Want to add something?? Just make sure you have a record for the name, add
+section in your config
+```
+  super.real.address {
+    reverse_proxy some.local.address.bleh:port
+  }
+```
+BLAM! you done proxied boiiiii.
+
+Of course this requires you to setup web addressing and that such but there are so much out there about this
+I won't rehash it here. 
+
+# ENDING
+This is more than I've written before so I'll stop here but I want to write more on what I'm hosting.
+
+Welp gg.