I’m not really sure how to ask this because my knowledge is pretty limited. Any basic answers or links will be much appreciated.

I have a number of self hosted services on my home PC. I’d like to be able to access them safely over the public Internet. There are a couple of reasons for this. There is an online calendar scheduling service I would like to have access to my caldav/carddav setup. I’d also like to set up Nextcloud, which seems more or less require https. I am using http connections secured through Tailscale at the moment.

I own a domain through an old Squarespace account that I would like to use. I currently have zero knowledge or understanding of how to route my self hosted services through the domain that I own, or even if that’s the correct way to set it up. Is there a guide that explains step by step for beginners how to access my home setup through the domain that I own? Should I move the domain from Squarespace to another provider that is better equipped for this type of setup?

Is this a bad idea for someone without much experience in networking in general?

    • CrayonDevourer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      16 days ago

      Seconding Caddy – It’s as close to it gets for “Just works”. It handles all the certs, it’s easy to refresh and add a subdomain instantly, handles wildcard domains, and the config file is dead simple to understand.

      You can use https://xcaddy.tech/ to build Caddy with various plugins, I use mine with transform-encoder so that logs can be made compatible with fail2ban.

      • illusionist@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        16 days ago

        I wish I would understand how to use xcaddy but I failed the last two times setting it up 😅 it was something about another language (go?) that was needed iirc