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  • Honestly, projects like AppSmith and Baserow are pretty good at this. Google AppSheet is by far the best implementation of this style of low-to-no-code app builders, but comes with the obvious caveat of being a Google product.

    If someone managed to make an open-source solution as slick as Google’s, I’d be right on it. As it stands, all the competition that I’ve found requires a decent existing knowledge of SQL queries to run the widgets themselves.





  • The very rough idea is this:

    I have a server with multiple services and only one open port (not counting the SSL port) on my router.

    Traffic comes into that one port straight to my server. That server has a reverse proxy installed with a directory of subdomains and associated ports.

    It internally routes traffic coming in on my open port to the internal services on the server without having to expose them directly to the internet.

    The big advantage is that because it all goes through my reverse proxy, I can add SSL certs to just that and now all of my subdomain services get the benefits of the SSL cert on the host.

    I’m sure there are other uses for reverse proxies, but this is how they work in my setup.


  • You made pretty much every point exactly how I was going to make it.

    I will mention that even as a pretty experienced sysadmin, learning Docker, reverse proxies, and relevant config files took ages because there are treated as assumed knowledge.

    Every YouTube video on Docker is 30 minutes shorter than they should be, and terminology for reverse proxies is really confusing if you’re not already familiar.

    It’s great to say you shouldn’t use these if you’re not familiar, but these are also probably the most poorly taught subjects in computing right now from my experience.