nginx 100% isn’t the problem, and you’re right on all counts. I’ll also add that I’ve seen reports that Lemmy has some pretty poorly optimized SQL queries.
They need to add support for a message broker system like RabbitMQ. That way their poor postgres instance stops being the bottleneck.
Traefik configuration is a bit verbose at times, but middlewares are awesome and you can pry them from my cold dead hands
I love ARPGs for this. Path of Exile and Last Epoch both have a highly repeatable endgame where you can just put on your media and blast maps/monoliths mindlessly for a few hours
Namecheap, but all my domains use Cloudflare’s nameservers