These days I see no point in installing services on a VPS directly, other than docker + docker-compose. You could do it in one image with the reverse proxy + static files, or break it out into two images (this is helpful if you run more services on the VPS).

As for updates, caddy v1 used to support pulling in from git, but I don't think that got ported to v2. So what I do is build+push a docker image, and have a cron job on my vps to pull+restart my website's container.

My preferences go Traefik > Caddy > Nginx, but traefik definitely has a bit of a learning curve.

https://github.com/andrewzah/andrewzah-com-source/blob/maste...

https://github.com/andrewzah/andrewzah.com-docker/tree/maste...