Mind that I am very noob into self-hosting, reverse proxies and the like

When I saw that Caddy automatically handled the HTTPS thingies I was like “this is my moment then to go into self-hosting”. Caddy seemed so simple.

Turns out… I am suddenly discovering that the connection between the caddy machine and the Home Assistant machine (both in the local network) is non-encrypted. So if another appliance in my local network went rogue… bum, all my info gets leaked… right?

This might sound weird because it might actually be super-duper complicated but… how come in 2025 we still don’t auto-encrypt local comms?

Please be kind. Lot’s of love. Hopefully I’ll dig my way to self-hosting wisdom.

  • FiduciaryOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    23 hours ago

    Good write-up. I also have Caddy with no HTTPS to the back end service, and was just thinking “I should set that up” when I realized…all the services are on the same ProxMox host, so that have direct access via virtualization, and so won’t be in clear text over the network at all (or at least I think so). Thanks!