I don’t think Rivian is generally known for quality / reliability: https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/rivian/

The implicit demand is to stop supporting fascists.

Same! Okay, not without problems, because running a mailserver isn’t maintenance-free. But Mailu has been generally solid and it works with Docker. (And Podman, unofficially.)

It’s good, but it’s centralized. Let’s say an authoritarian regime shuts down the central Signal servers. Then what?

I call bullshit. Because no LLM ever says, “I don’t know.” It just confidently invents an answer out of thin air.

Only mostly facetious here…

I went down this very same twisty road a while back with rootless Podman. I tried several of the solutions you mentioned. None of them worked. The actual working solution I finally settled on was using Proxy Protocol to pass the original client IP from the host into a container. In my particular case, I’m running a very basic HAProxy config on the host that’s talking Proxy Protocol to Traefik running in a container. And it works great; actual client IPs show up in the logs as expected.

In your particular case, you could probably run HAProxy on the host and have that talk Proxy Protocol to Caddy running in a container.

I know, rite??

Probably because nobody uses RSS. Or websites.

You can do calendar and contacts separate from email. Try Radicale. I’ve been using it for years.

Another container-based alternative in that space is Mailu.

Look, I appreciate you pushing on the UX aspects of the fediverse here. But let me ask yout something. What’s your email address? Is it Lost_My_Mind? No? Oh, because it’s got an @whatever.com on the end? Why is that? Why don’t we have one global, centralized namespace for email usernames such that there’s only a single Lost_My_Mind in the whole world?

Read Old Man’s War.

You don’t even need a star cert… The DNS challenge works for that use case as well.

I use Traefik as my main reverse proxy as well for the same reason—container niceties. But then I actually also use nginx… inside container images, like for containers that just serve static files for example.

Use the right tool for the job!

I develop a moderately popular open source project and self-host it on Gitea. But I also mirror it on GitHub and accept PRs there. And one PR submitter on GitHub said they preferred to contribute there because that’s where potential employers look for open source activity.

Could employers also look on Gitea/Forgejo? In theory, yes. But some of them literally ask for your GitHub profile on their application forms…

I use Ansible to meet this need. Whenever I want to deploy to one or more remote hosts, I run Ansible locally and it connects via SSH to the remote host(s). There, it can run Docker Compose, configure services, lay down files on the host, restart things, etc.

The site links to a site that accepts payment data. So because the author’s site is http, a MITM attacker could change the payment links from lulu.com to site-that-actually-steals-your-credit-card.com.

That’s one huge thing https provides over http… assurance of unadulterated content, including links to sites that actually deal in sensitive data.

Regardless of intent/effect, it’s sloppy and does not instill confidence in the data…

Yeah, look at the x axis labels. 5 years, 2 years, and 3 years. WTF?

I haven’t used an out-of-the-box self-hosted solution for this, but I agree with others that blog or static site generator software could work. I think the main challenges you’ll find though are: 1. Formatting the content/site for long-form readability, and 2. Adding a table of contents and previous/next chapter links without a bunch of manual work.

Fortunately blog and static site software have plugins that can add missing functionality like this. Here’s one for WordPress (that I have no first-hand experience with): https://wordpress.org/plugins/book-press/

I also want to ask: What’s your plan for discovery/marketing? Because one of the benefits of the non-self-hosted web novel sites is that readers can theoretically discover your story there. But if you instead just post it on your own site, how will readers ever find it?