Recently it’s come to my attention that Caddy has an AI sponsor so I have been looking at moving away from Caddy.

I’m currently looking for another reverse proxy to use in place of Caddy. For TLS I am looking into using CertBot and it appears there’s a module (https://github.com/desec-io/certbot-dns-desec) I can use that works for https://desec.io/ to handle my certs.

I have two questions, the first is about CertBot. Since Caddy is handling my certs automatically, how often would I want to renew my certs? Desec.io has this command to obtain a cert:

certbot certonly \
     --authenticator dns-desec \
     --dns-desec-credentials /etc/letsencrypt/secrets/$DOMAIN.ini \
     -d "$DOMAIN" \
     -d "*.$DOMAIN"

Would I be required to run the same command periodically to renew my cert?

My second question is a bit more open ended. I am looking to hear any suggestions or experiences about different reverse proxies that are preferably free of AI. There is a list here with some suggested alternatives: https://codeberg.org/ethical-foss/open-slopware#web-servers

  • Shimitar@downonthestreet.euEnglish
    284·
    24 hours ago

    I believe that it’s impossible to avoid ai generated or ai committed or ai designed or ai helped code. Or will very soon be.

    Better to learn to cope with it.

    • confusedpuppy@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      143·
      22 hours ago

      Impossible? There are people who still write code by hand. There are people who oppose AI, some more actively (or destructively) than others.

      Harder to avoid seems like a more reasonable take.

      However I am coping, by actively seeking, talking about and supporting alternatives with the hope of spreading that knowledge to those who would like to avoid the use of AI or enable those who support AI.

      Human creativity has a much longer and far more interesting history when compared to AI or machine learning. AI hasn’t always existed and does not need to have complete influence over our future.

      • forbiddenlake@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        14 hours ago

        Your stance rules out all the big and mature software. No judgement on the stance, but you are asking a difficult question.

        Off that alternatives list, the only one I’ve heard of is lighttpd, and it’s news to me that lighty can do reverse proxying. But I would try that.

        I expect it to be a lot more difficult to find documentation and support for anything more obscure than lighty. Which may be fine for you, just know what you’re getting in to.

        As for certbot, iirc you need to add a renew command to cron, but otherwise certbot will take care of it. I’m sure the cron is in the documentation.

        • confusedpuppy@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
          1·
          1 hour ago

          I definitely expect this path to be a bit of a challenge

          I was looking at lighttpd as well. That was the only one on the list that sounded familiar to me. I may check it out and see if it can fit me needs. I do run a very minimal setup so I might just be enough.