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How I expose services while self hosting
This post delves into details of how I use Caddy along with Tailscale to expose public and private services

Caddy - The Ultimate Server with Automatic HTTPS
Caddy is a powerful, enterprise-ready, open source web server with automatic HTTPS written in Go

5 reasons I dumped Nginx Proxy Manager for Caddy
I've made the switch from Nginx Proxy Manager to Caddy, and I'm not looking back.

Forgejo – Beyond coding. We forge.
Forgejo is a self-hosted lightweight software forge. Easy to install and low maintenance, it just does the job.

Self-Host & Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your Own
Why I self-host my websites, newsletter, and homelab—and the satisfaction that comes from building and using your own digital tools.

Self-hosting a Bluesky PDS and using your domain as your handle
Rafael Eyng's tech blog
Self-Hosting Guide to Alternatives: Notion
Self-hosted alternatives for the popular collaboration platform


Public Hosted PDS options - created by HilaryBaumann.com
Runtipi | Homeserver management made easy
Easy to use homeserver helper to manage all your favorite self-hosted services.

Easypanel — Deploy anything on your server
Deploy applications and open-source services on your own server with a modern, self-hosted platform as a service.
Directus | Collaborative Backend & Headless CMS
The collaborative backend and self-hostable headless CMS over any database. No-code interface, REST + GraphQL APIs, and MCP for Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor.

Manton Reece - Introducing the Micro.blog PDS
I’ve started rolling out an AT Protocol PDS — personal data server — for new Micro.blog users. In the Bluesky world, a PDS is what stores your posts, follows, photos, and other data from apps. In the same way that creating an account on Micro.blog automatically gives you a fediverse handle, I wanted people to be able to create a Micro.blog account and have everything they needed to sign into Bluesky.

Non-bluesky Public Hosted PDSs - Hilary's Leaflet
Existing public hosted PDS options. This also has some things I hope that anyone hosting a PDS will look at. (Backups, account creation and migration will be covered separately.)
I think we need a "PDS as a Service". There are a bunch of little apps I'd love to make, but I don't want to have to host a PDS for each of them for anyone who doesn't already have an account. But I'd be fine with allowing them to register to a PDS with my app's domain and pay a fee per sign up.