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I found Nginx Proxy Manager to be the easiest to configure when I was starting out my homelab! I think the GUI played a big part in that, but it's also just pure NGINX under the hood, so when you get more comfortable with the concepts, you could easily transition to that for even lower overhead (welp, I just had a look at my docker stats, NPM is sitting at 3.2 MB of ram with ~10 proxy hosts, not sure how necessary that even is...)
If you're going to be jumping straight into text based config files.... Caddy's Caddyfile format is a lot easier to work with then nginx configs IMO.
Well, I've been self hosting for a few years now, haven't really had the need to jump into a text config for NGINX yet (apart from the rare custom configs some services need, but those are still done in the GUI). Caddy has it's draws, as does traefik, but I think it's easier to learn the concepts with the ease of use a GUI offers!
I live mostly on the command line - I'm not afraid to edit .conf files by hand and its how I do most all things - maybe that's why I'm having trouble with this setup!! LOLZ
I mean, yeah. That is true, a GUI would be easier for someone to learn. But once you do, config files are way faster.
Honestly, I first moved to traefik (from caddy) because it let me put my proxy configuration next to the application it's for. (When I was using docker-compose files to manage this.)
Yeah, I seriously considered traefik for that convenience alone! When I inevitably outgrow this setup, traefik is the next stop, for sure.