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is it better to use subdomains or paths? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 year ago by Sekoia@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I have a few selfhosted services, but I'm slowly adding more. Currently, they're all in subdomains like linkding.sekoia.example etc. However, that adds DNS records to fetch and means more setup. Is there some reason I shouldn't put all my services under a single subdomain with paths (using a reverse proxy), like selfhosted.sekoia.example/linkding?

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[–] key@lemmy.keychat.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I got around this by hosting adguard as a local DNS and added an override so that my domain resolved to the local IP. But this won't work if you're connected to a VPN as it'll capture your DNS requests

Why didn't you use your hosts file?

[–] TemperateFox 1 points 1 year ago

That would also work, though I also wanted other devices like my mobile and tv to work the same way while at home. With mobile, setting DNS for the Wi-Fi network means it'll access local while at home and via cloudflared while roaming, without having to log out and in on apps to change the server address.