arudesalad to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoWhat's the point of a reverse proxy and does cloudflare give all the benefits of one?message-squaremessage-square29fedilinkarrow-up199arrow-down17
arrow-up192arrow-down1message-squareWhat's the point of a reverse proxy and does cloudflare give all the benefits of one?arudesalad to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square29fedilink
minus-squareBoofStrokelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 months agoOther than waf stuff, if you have multiple servers behind a small nat, a reverse proxy can service them all from a single exposed public address. You can also do rewrite rules on the proxy vs on each server.
Other than waf stuff, if you have multiple servers behind a small nat, a reverse proxy can service them all from a single exposed public address. You can also do rewrite rules on the proxy vs on each server.