I’m in New Hampshire and I’ve been poking at AI app builders for a small side project, but I keep coming back to the idea of just serving something myself with Caddy since I already have a cheap VPS sitting idle. The part I’m unsure about is whether it actually makes sense for someone who isn’t a sysadmin by trade. My biggest concern is TLS and reverse proxy config when the app is still changing shape every week, and whether I’d be trading one kind of lock-in for another. I’ve read a bit online about alternatives to those builders but nothing that speaks to the hosting side. For anyone running Caddy in front of a hobby app, what did the first few weeks look like, and what would you tell someone deciding between a hosted builder and rolling their own with Caddy?
Update after reading a bit more - Best Lovable Alternatives (2026) came up when I looked into the hosting side of things. Still not sure Caddy is worth the TLS learning curve while my app keeps changing, so I’m weighing both a while longer.