Skip to content
bramholtackers_
← all cases

LAB 01 / Infra

Own VPS: Plesk and Docker side by side

Containers via Portainer, wildcard DNS and nginx as reverse proxy. This site runs on it too.

Role
Setup and maintenance
Stack
Docker · Portainer · Plesk · nginx
Client
Own project

01 — Why

Exactly what I need

On shared hosting you get what the host gives you. With my own VPS I set up exactly what I need: which services run, how they’re reached and how they’re deployed.

02 — Setup

Plesk and Docker side by side

Plesk manages domains and certificates. Docker containers run alongside it, managed through Portainer. A wildcard DNS record points subdomains at the server, and Plesk’s nginx proxies them to the right container port.

Caddy used to handle the reverse proxy, but the DNS provider’s limit of five subdomains got in the way. The wildcard via Plesk solves that and removes a layer.

03 — Running

What runs on it

  • This site, as a static build in an nginx container
  • A custom League of Legends tracker
  • A sandbox site for HTML, CSS and JavaScript experiments
  • A MySQL and phpMyAdmin stack