I’d asked about using a VPS to get better routing to my homelab in this post: https://lemmy.world/post/1424540

I’ve narrowed down my problem- if i use a subdomain in my caddyfile, performance is 1/3 or worse compared to just the root.

example.com {reverse_proxy 192.168.1.57}

will saturate my gigabit lan connection at 980ish. On a 5gUW connection i get my advertised 50 mbit or more

librespeed.example.com {reverse_proxy 192.168.1.57}

I get 220-250 megabits on my internal lan. The same 5gUW connection will only get 7 or 8 mbit.

It’s strange to me that everything seems to work just fine, but it’s just slow. Anyone got any ideas?

  • Lasso1971@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    That’s a crazy issue to have discovered. Maybe you could try a different reverse proxy like nginx to narrow down potential causes for the issue

    • bigredgiraffe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Yeah this smells like a bug in Caddy or something. I agree to try nginx or something else to see if it’s Caddy or if it’s something with the configuration of the host. The only thing I could think of is if caddy isn’t caching DNS responses and maybe is getting rate limited so it appears slower while it’s waiting on the DNS request but I am shooting in the dark as I haven’t spent much time with caddy.

      • lemming741@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I mentioned above- the subdomains were using HTTP/3, and the root entry does not. I don’t know if it’s something I have mis-configured or just HTTP/3 being new and maybe buggy. Either way, i disabled it globally and performance is the same.

    • lemming741@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I tried to dig into that but couldn’t come up with a good test. But if NAT hairpinning wasn’t working right, I’d be limited to my ISPs 50Mbit, right? I could get 200+ Mbit on wifi. I also tested this from work (50 Mbit sym fiber) and subdomains always were slower. I figured out today it’s HTTP/3 causing my problems. I don’t know if I care to troubleshoot anymore since it’s working great with http 1 & 2.