Reverse Proxy

[Joseph Sinclair]

Depends on what exactly you need:
Just a fast stable and secure proxy to load-balance and provide a secure frontend:
  haproxy (incredibly stable and fast, but only does proxy and load-balancing)
Popular webserver that runs as a proxy and does SSL unwrap:
  Apache (heavy, lots of modules)
  NGinx (light, fewer add-on capabilities)
Caching frontend to reduce load on your web servers:
  Squid (very heavy and lots of tuning needed to get it just right)


Links:
haproxy: http://haproxy.1wt.eu/
apache:  http://httpd.apache.org/
nginx:   http://www.nginx.org/
squid:   http://www.squid-cache.org/


Mike Ballon wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I have the need to setup a reverse proxy to front-end some websites for
> security reasons, but I can't decide whether to use Apache or Squid. The
> only real requirements are to having something "more secure" than your
> standard IP based firewall, something like an application proxy that
> supports load-balancing.
> 
> Can anyone offer some practical experience?
> 
> -Mike
> 
> 
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