networking

Pangolin vs Cloudflare Tunnels: Self-Hosted Reverse Tunneling for Homelabs in 2026

Use Pangolin if you self-host media, cloud storage, or anything Cloudflare's TOS excludes (Jellyfin, Immich, Nextcloud). Use Cloudflare Tunnels for blogs, dashboards, and small services where free + DDoS protection matters more than owning the edge. Running both is a valid answer.

networking

How to Set Up Traefik 3 with Docker Compose: The Reverse Proxy That Actually Makes Sense

Traefik 3 with Docker Compose replaces NGINX conf files and manual cert renewal with container labels and automatic Let's Encrypt. This guide walks through the exact static config, Compose file, and per-service label pattern that gets HTTPS working on every subdomain in under an hour.