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Docker, Docker Compose, Tailscale, reverse proxies, monitoring, backups, and self-hosted applications.
Caddy showing 502 Bad Gateway for a containerized app? Diagnose it in the right order — Docker networking, bind addresses, port mismatches, and startup races — instead of guessing.
Restic backups fail silently more often than loudly — a flaky network, an expired token, a full disk — and cron won't tell you. Here's how to wire a self-hosted Healthchecks dead man's switch into a restic backup script, and the single setup mistake that quietly defeats the whole point.
Docker doesn't restart a container just because it's marked unhealthy — that's the single most common misconception in self-hosted Docker setups. Here's how healthchecks and restart policies actually relate, and the exact setup that makes a self-hosted app genuinely recover on its own.
How to run several apps on a single cheap VPS using Docker and Caddy — shared network setup, working Caddyfile examples, free auto-renewing HTTPS per subdomain, and when label-based routing is worth the switch.
