Homelab Hero · No. 013

One incident. Three calls.

Wednesday, 9 PM. A monitoring alert lands: the certificate on the reverse proxy in front of your self-hosted services expires at midnight. The renewal job has been failing quietly for a week — and the household's photo backup syncs through that proxy tonight.

Your call:

A. Issue a fresh certificate now, verify the new chain and expiry from outside the LAN, then put an alert on the renewal job so it cannot fail silently again

B. Close the proxy's public port until morning and renew first thing at your desk

C. Set the backup client to skip certificate verification and renew at the weekend

100 Hero Points for the right call — 200 on the Friday Boss Fight. From Issue No. 013 of The Homelab Herald. Your result lands on the next page, ready to share.