@gommehammer I was referring to age verification for social media, where you only need to prove you're over 16.

@gommehammer that's great! Yeah, I think a system like that ought to be open source. I heard that they have some trust-less solution for online verifications in Switzerland last time I was there.

@Tutanota I must be one of the only privacy advocates who actually thinks children shouldn't be allowed to use social media 😬 My main concern is the age verification implementation, but I know there are ways to make it 100% private, only revealing if you're over a certain age as a true or false value.

@DevWouter does it scale well? I'm seeing a lot of mentions of "lightweight" and "IoT", but not much about scaling.

@DevWouter ah, cool! So maybe you could say k3s is to k8s like Next JS is to React.

@DevWouter another question: vanilla k8s can't do load balancing with multiple servers like k3s can, right?

@sihaha Actually, after talking to some of the awesome folks here in the replies, I might stick to managing SSL myself, but I'll change my Nginx + Certbot setup to just Caddy, which can act as a reverse proxy, load balancer, and also manage certificates. Will most likely share my final config this week.

@DevWouter I did a little bit of digging and it seems like that's not an issue anymore.

@Q3fRtMU0WFxfK2M the story was just that I wasn't a fan of manually setting up Nginx and Certbot, but yeah, I should've definitely looked into other technologies that do what I needed.

@DevWouter hmm, those are definitely good points. I might give Caddy a shot and see if that's better than my previous setup (shoutout to @Q3fRtMU0WFxfK2M !).

@DevWouter ah, very cool. So you can have k3s orchestrate multiple servers and do load balancing. I'll probably consider this option once I have to begin scaling horizontally.

@Q3fRtMU0WFxfK2M do you use it yourself?

@Q3fRtMU0WFxfK2M I'd just never heard of it. Just looked it up, and just based on their landing page it looks like exactly what I wanted: a reverse proxy with easy SSL and load balancing. I might just switch to it!

@DevWouter yeah, I don't mind if SSL is managed by the hosting provider. The way I understand it, I'll still be able to download the certificates and give Nginx access to them, so the traffic up to the proxy will always be encrypted. And then I also don't have to worry about renewing the certificates myself.

I'm curious, could you tell me a bit more about your setup? Do you have multiple servers orchestrated together?

@DevWouter Thats right. The only service directly exposed to the internet is Nginx, which handles SSL and talks to the Supabase and Next JS services directly via HTTP (though I still have to make sure this would work with Supabase once I deploy it). Though this was basically the same with my old setup, I just had to handle SSL manually, which was annoying to have to set up every time I deployed a new server.

I think I have a new favorite setup for self-hosting websites. I used to configure #Nginx and Let's Encrypt (with Certbot) manually on my #Linux servers, and then I also tried out a #Docker Compose setup with an Nginx and a Certbot container. Now I have a hybrid approach: setting up Nginx as a container in my Docker Compose file and configuring SSL through my hosting provider. No more manual Nginx/Certbot configuration!

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Finished migrating all the features on my website (cubingcontests.com) that I was planning to. Now I just need to deploy the new infra and we're ready for release, finally after almost one year!

I've also been thinking about offering it as a service to other niche sports organizations that have similar needs, and I might already have something lined up now 😮

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@PhineasX also one of my favorite Nurse With Wound tracks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvJjdKCTqCg

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I am in a deep state of flow now. Gonna finish my year-long website update this month for sure!

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