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.
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 6 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 1 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 4 hours ago [-]
Nowadays, "reverse" is suppressed in most ways. I have heard that Nginx is a proxy more often than a reverse proxy.
Valodim 2 hours ago [-]
Except in the configuration where you use the reversep_proxy directive, of course
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I definitely prefer Caddy in my experience, so far.