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Caddy seems to good to be true? I just set it up and it works perfect, straight out of the box (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This seems too straightforward, what's the catch?

Like how secure is it? Should I be turning it off (and disabling the port forwarding) when not using it?

Do I need any additional security? Mainly just want to use it for Jellyfin

Thanks

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (6 children)

at the moment my caddy setup is stable; I am recounting my experience from memory.

It may be useful to consider what I said in a broader perspective -- i.e., what you have is an excellent reference but it does not help discovery of task-oriented solutions.

Sorry I am unable to express the problem better than that. Will keep an eye out in future if I can get more concrete and open an issue or something.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (5 children)

😬 Well, that's not helpful. Without specific feedback, there's nothing we can do to improve the docs. It's exhausting to read vague complaints about the docs, because it's 90% of the feedback we get.

But yes, please do reach out (open a GitHub issue, comment on the forums etc) if you do notice something that doesn't meet your expectations in the docs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (4 children)

What I think they meant is more “how to achieve X or Y” focused documentation, rather than just explaining how features A or B work. The former approach explains what you should use and how to do it, the latter only documents what each variable does.

To use an analogy: I could probably build a bicycle from the individual parts based on a tutorial with that goal in mind, but not based on the individual technical descriptions of each part.

/u/xkcd__386 is that what you meant?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Spot on.

Of course from their point of view that's "not helpful". Maybe I'll spend some time looking at it to come up with something, if I have time.

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