48 points by miggy 4 days ago | 4 comments
MortyWaves 7 hours ago
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.

ethan_smith 2 minutes ago
HAProxy deserves a mention alongside those - it's particularly strong for high-traffic production environments where its advanced load balancing algorithms and detailed metrics shine.
joshbaptiste 14 minutes ago
Trying out ferron recently as a reverse proxy https://www.ferronweb.org/.. config is super simple
lowwave 1 hour ago
Is there a reverse proxies that can support DTLS support out of box without some kind experimental patch[1]?

1: https://nginx.org/patches/dtls/

vojtechrichter 1 hour ago
Amazing read, I personally find it fascinating to make my own load balancer.
shelajev 4 days ago
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.
happytoexplain 9 hours ago
It's one of the classic cases of a thing being named relative to what came before it, rather than being named on its own merit. This makes sense to people working at the time the new thing is introduced, but is confusing to every other learner in the future.
nosianu 4 hours ago
Could be worse. All the many things named after people prevalent in some fields more than in others, biology/medicine for example. When you read, for example, "loop of Henle" or "circle of Willis" you don't even know where to begin. You either know the term or not.
rini17 4 days ago
Since web proxy was originally used near clients, caching stuff to save precious bandwidth of their kbps-tier connection.
azaras 7 hours ago
Nowadays, "reverse" is suppressed in most ways. I have heard that Nginx is a proxy more often than a reverse proxy.
daveguy 17 minutes ago
How about service proxy vs web proxy rather than reverse proxy and proxy? Makes more clear that one is a proxy on the service side and the other is a proxy on the client side. Service proxy and Client proxy might be even better.
Valodim 5 hours ago
Except in the configuration where you use the reversep_proxy directive, of course
leptons 2 hours ago
How does this relate to "AI"? /s