October 25, 2025
I want to achieve a fast pathway for service to deployment that is largely instant using my local NixOS server and one VPS. The current workflow is already good but there are bottlenecks at the level of nginx and certbot layer. Having to navigate via the terminal is fine, but there is a level of verbose complexity that can get annoying like remembering to do symlinks from available to enabled, testing the nginx config etc etc. An automated nginx + certbot would be an ideal solution.


The current project already controls the certificates for itself. It uses nginx and cerbot directly behind the scenes. I will be creating a public github repo for this project soon. This significantly simplifies the deployment of webservices from my own home server to the open web. Using tailscale I can pipe a VPS traffic to anything behind a NAT.
According to ChatGPT this setup (whilst dependant on your internet connection) should have a theoretical max 200-300 Mbps sustained traffic on a single core 1GB DigitalOcean VPS. Far outside of any realistic use case of all my business + personal needs combined.