Dashboard

1. Dashboard

Welcome to the Dashboard tab! Here, you'll find important information about your container, like IP addresses, status, hostnames, and controls to stop, reboot, and delete your container.

Stop/Reboot controls are especially helpful if a process gets hung or your container runs out of memory.

Do not click delete container unless you want to permanently wipe your container. This operation cannnot be undone and you will have to reapply for a new container. If your container is messed up, first consider a backup.

2. Domains/Reverse Proxy

Cloudflare DNS page included for illustrative purposes only.

Welcome to the domains tab! This allows you to reverse proxy whatever you're hosting in your Nest container and put it on a public IP!

To start, make sure your program is listening to all addresses on a certain port (e.g. 3000 or 8080). Then, go to your domain's DNS page and add a CNAME (canonical name) record. In this case, we want our project to be located at birdie.mycooldomain.com, so we would add birdie in the name since we don't just want the root domain.

Make sure the target is set to your hackclub.app subdomain (your-username.hackclub.app) and that proxy status, if included, is set to DNS only. Then save it! Note that other DNS providers might handle CNAME creation differently.

Now, head back over to your Nest dashboard's domains tab, and add the domain! In this example, it's birdie.mycooldomain.com. In the target port box, include the port your project is running on (in this case, port 8080). Then, click add domain!

DNS changes like the ones we just made can take up to 48 hours to propagate depending on the provider, so please be patient!