NetworkChuck

YouTube creator focused on networking, self-hosting, and homelab tutorials. Long-running channel; the wiki tracks NetworkChuck because his deployment guides for self-hosted services (especially the Cloudflare DNS + Nginx Proxy Manager + Let’s Encrypt pattern) are the most-recommended path for turning a localhost AI tool into a real internet-accessible service.

Channels

• YouTube: NetworkChuck — networking, Linux, Docker, self-hosting tutorials

Content in This Wiki

• Turn Open WebUI into a Real Website (Domain + SSL) (2025-03-13) — full Cloudflare + Nginx Proxy Manager + Let’s Encrypt deployment guide for Open WebUI; the wiki’s canonical recipe for exposing a self-hosted AI dashboard at a real domain with valid HTTPS.

Key Ideas

• Cloudflare DNS as the default registrar / nameserver for self-hosted services — cheap, fast, includes the API needed for Let’s Encrypt DNS-01 challenges
• Nginx Proxy Manager + Let’s Encrypt is the simplest path to valid SSL on private IPs; turns localhost services into real domain-fronted products
• Subdomain-per-service is the cleanest pattern (ai.domain.com for Open WebUI, etc.) — pairs with wildcard certs

See Also

• Open WebUI
• Wolfgang’s Channel — sibling self-hosting / homelab voice
• Self-Hostable Alternatives