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


I’m fairly certain NPM (nginx proxy manager) doesn’t have any llm use inherently within the project, not sure on financial support. Other people have made context providers to use an LLM with NPM, but I don’t believe the core package itself does.
May be what meets your reqs.
I’ve used NPM before and it is quite simple and easy to use, however I do have a preference for CLI tools
Just use nginx and certbot manually then, its just a pretty front end for them after all.
npm is just a wrapper for nginx