MFW I trained for years to be the best athlete I can be

MFW my role is to just sit on the ground

I thought I had a lot of RAM with 64

Import it into the trust store in the browser/OS. It should be the same (or very similar) operation for a self-signed cert and a CA that isn’t subordinate to the standard internet root CAs.

If you can’t import your own root CA cert then you’re probably screwed on both fronts and are going to have to use certs issued by a public CA that’s subordinate to a commonly trusted root CA.

My point here is that there’s little distinguishing a self-signed cert and a cert issued by your own private CA for most people that are self-hosting.

Trust the self signed cert. Works similarly to trusting a CA.

Running your own CA is essentially still a form of self signed. Though it will work better for some use cases (at the cost of more complexity)

You don’t need a public DNS record for https to work. You can just use public external certs as long as it’s for a domain you own. You don’t need to setup the same domains externally.

If you want certs for a domain you own, then yeah you’re looking at self signed.

You may be thinking like a programmer but the guy you responded to is thinking like a software engineer.

I usually go for the non-accessible one first, but if that one is occupied or dirty or something I readily use the handicap accessible one.

Encryption in transit even internally is a good practice. That said, op is making life hard by refusing to use DNS.

I feel like op is about to find out why businesses pay for cloud services.

You just described a load balancer. The router doesn’t know about DNS but clients using your service use DNS. You can do some simple load balancing behind DNS. If you want to do it by IP address you want a load balancer though.

If overcomplicating things is a concern for you, then just use let’s encrypt. Running your own ca is a pain in the ass and probably decreases security for most people due to the difficulty of doing it correctly.

I’d be interested in a community for commercial sysadmin type stuff, but the ones I’ve seen are all pretty dead. I am one of those people that work in the industry.