When you first start out building a home lab or self-hosting services, security is often a secondary thought as you’re not using your new tools outside your home network. But as you go on, you realize how unsafe the internet can be, and want to use SSL encryption for your apps, like any server on the modern web. Whether you’re building a reverse proxy for accessing your stack or being more adventurous with hosting an email server, you’ll need SSL to encrypt your data while in transit between the server and client.