I have been wanting to compare these two for a while. If you haven't heard about NPMplus as of yet, it is a fork of the official Nginx Proxy Manager and has some very cool enhancements, especially for security purposes (Crowdsec integration!) pretty cool: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2025/09/nginx-proxy-manager-vs-npmplus-which-one-is-better-for-your-home-lab/

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Everyone @David Vincent had a great idea to create a repo for all the challenge docs, files, configs, code, etc. I have created an official "HomeLabExplorers" repo here: https://github.com/brandonleegit/homelabexplorers.git As David mentioned, this will also serve the purpose of ones getting familiar with Git as well, with their home lab projects. I have created the repo that contains a "challenges" folder. So you will just need to clone it down and create pull requests to have your code merged in. I think possibly a good idea would be to use your HomeLabExplorers name or any name for your subfolder underneath and maybe create folders for "challenge 1" challenge 2, etc. However, let me know your thoughts as this is a work in progress. Thanks Everyone!