How to Set Up Trusted HTTPS for Local Homelab Domains (Coolify + Traefik)

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If you’re running self-hosted services in your homelab — Nextcloud, Gitea, Vaultwarden, or anything else — you’ve probably run into the dreaded “Your connection is not private” warning, or worse, apps that flat-out refuse to connect over HTTPS. In this guide I’ll show you exactly how to set up a proper trusted TLS certificate for …

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Nextcloud, Cloudflare, and Tailscale: How I Finally Stopped Fighting Upload Limits

⏱ 4 min read

This post is part of the Self-Hosting Without Pain seriesA real-world guide to running Immich, Nextcloud, Jellyfin, and more using Cloudflare, Tailscale, and Proxmox — without broken uploads, buffering, or exposed ports. If you self-host Nextcloud long enough, you eventually hit that moment. You upload a big file.It stalls at 98%.You retry.It fails again. And …

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Immich Upload Limit Fix: Cloudflare Tunnel + Tailscale on Proxmox (Best Practice)

⏱ 5 min read

This post is part of the Self-Hosting Without Pain seriesA real-world guide to running Immich, Nextcloud, Jellyfin, and more using Cloudflare, Tailscale, and Proxmox — without broken uploads, buffering, or exposed ports. I thought Cloudflare Tunnel was perfect… until Immich broke. I self-host Immich on Proxmox.It’s fast, clean, and honestly one of the best Google …

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