like you are using the router for internal DNS, did you set all the services to point at caddy?

That was the answer! I had it pointed to the services, but once I set them to point at Caddy, it all worked. I cannot believe it was such a simple fix and also that I never picked up on that in all the guides/tutorials/videos I watched about this. Thank you!

Yes, I probably did. I am familiar with computers, but know next to nothing about networking. So I was trying a bunch of various things I could find to try to get it to work. the proxmox ACME did not get me certs for my server or for a vm of proxmox so I abandoned that method and tried caddy and GoDoxy but never got them to get certs for services after various attempts. So I reached out here since there are many more people smarter than me here.

I’m your router / Pihole locally, you setup the above URLs to point to the IP of caddy This is what I must be doing wrong. I have my router point to the url for the lxc services. So it is supposed to point to caddy. Thank you for the tip. I will try it out!

I use porkbun and I do the DNS challenge. I know it succeeds because proxmox gets https perfectly fine. But none of my lxc containers get https after doing DNS challenges for them. Not sure what I am doing wrong since I clearly did it right at least once :/

I have tried all of them and yunohost is the best for me. I have been able to test self-hosted software that I could not otherwise. Cosmos and CasaOS work for many people, but they did not use some of the software I wanted to try; when I tried to set up a docker image of those pieces of software, it did not work. I understand that it was my failure to understand docker that failed here, so if you know docker, these might be much more useful to you.

That was my first thought as well, but I think he means things, not time. You miss this thing and that as you stare at your phone. So in that second of mindless scrolling, you missed things around you that might have added something to your day, to your life. So ‘how much of your life do you let pass by’ is not asking how many seconds of life did you let pass by (though that is the first thought upon reading), but ‘how many things that could have affected your life- for the better or worse- do you let pass you by?’