Reverse Proxy

[Ed]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Joseph Sinclair
<plug-discussion at stcaz.net> wrote:
> 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/
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