This article is part of my series on my personal server setup. In this post I want to quickly explain the motivation why I am doing all the work for hosting my own infrastructure instead of just paying for a service provider.

In this post I am going to describe the reverse proxy setup I am using on my private server. I am also using a very similar setup for my blog. However there is not much difference so I will simply go through my private setup here. As a matter of fact this setup is even more sophisticated as it allows to restrict some services only to my VPN.

Ever since I started running my own Nextcloud instance about one and a half years ago I wanted to write a blog post about my setup. However up to now I have always delayed this for two main reasons. First I was never really confident that my setup was already in a state that could be presented and on the other hand time is always rare for me. However recently I have been asked on whether I have experience migrating a Nextcloud instance to docker. I do not have any migration experience since I…