Homelab Hero · No. 017: your result

Clean slate, lost state. 0 Hero Points.

The volumes were not bad state — they held the proxy's certificates and configuration, the very things that take longest to rebuild. Deleting them turns a ten-minute log read into a morning of re-issuing certs and rewriting config while the house waits. A fresh container on empty volumes is not a fix; it is a second outage you scheduled yourself.

The lesson: Never delete volumes to cure a crash loop. The state you call bad is usually the config you cannot spare.

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