Reverse proxy deep dive

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@miggy

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July 8th, 2025 at 7:49am

@MortyWaves

July 12th, 2025 at 7:46am

Caddy, Nginx, Traefik seem to be the most popular reverse proxies in the self hosting/homelab communities.

I definitely prefer Caddy in my experience, so far.

@tdiff

July 12th, 2025 at 4:28pm

Really looks like an ai-generated overview.

@raincom

July 12th, 2025 at 6:18pm

What's the difference between Reverse proxy and forward proxy? Is there something like "intermediate proxy"? Is this concept of L7 proxy, similar to DNAT/SNAT or Port forwarding in L3/L4?

@philwelch

July 12th, 2025 at 6:05pm

Original, Medium-free URL is https://startwithawhy.com/reverseproxy/2024/01/15/ReversePro...

Meta request: can we change the URL to the original source? This isn’t quite blogspam (since it’s the same author reposting the same piece onto Medium) but Medium is annoying enough that I’d still rather resolve to the original source

@vojtechrichter

July 12th, 2025 at 1:46pm

Amazing read, I personally find it fascinating to make my own load balancer.

@jeffbee

July 12th, 2025 at 2:58pm

I would say the bullet points at the top are not strictly correct. The response does not necessarily transit the proxy. Responses can be returned directly to the client (DSR).

@shelajev

July 8th, 2025 at 8:18am

It took me an embarrassingly long time to internalize what the reverse proxy is. My brain got stuck on the fact that it is just proxying requests. What's so reverse about this? Silly.

@leptons

July 12th, 2025 at 11:55am

How does this relate to "AI"? /s