798: Self Hosting: Reverse Proxy Servers
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats
Wes Bos
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Scott and Wes serve up an episode on reverse proxy servers. They discuss popular options like CF Tunnels, Caddy, Nginx, Apache, and more, explaining why you might need one for load balancing, SSL certificates, security, and managing multiple servers.
Show Notes
- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 01:30 Brought to you by Sentry.io.
- 02:25 What is reverse proxy?
- 03:16 Some examples of reverse proxies.
- 05:04 Why do you need a reverse proxy?
- 15:55 Caddy × websocket support.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Syntax. On this Monday hasty treat we're going to be talking all about |
| 0:06.0 | self-hosting and reverse proxy servers. If you've ever tried to self-host anything |
| 0:11.6 | yourself, you've inevitably hit the word a reverse |
| 0:15.2 | proxy and we're going to be talking a little bit about what a reverse proxy is, |
| 0:19.7 | how you can do them yourself and what they're useful in and some different ways of |
| 0:24.9 | approaching them. My name is Scott Tolensky. I'm a developer from Denver and |
| 0:28.5 | with me as always is West Boss. What's up West? |
| 0:31.9 | Excited. Talk about reverse proxies. |
| 0:34.1 | It's funny that we had Matt from Caddy on probably about two years ago, |
| 0:39.3 | maybe even three years ago, and we asked them, |
| 0:42.2 | hey, do you think it's even worth learning |
| 0:45.1 | to how to manage a server? |
| 0:47.4 | And at the time, it was, everybody was like, |
| 0:49.4 | serverless, everything, and it feels like we've really switched, you know, like it feels like we've really switched you know like it feels like everybody's |
| 0:55.4 | talking about self-hosting now you know and we're all back into oh I need a |
| 0:59.0 | reverse proxy so that's what we're here to tell you about today. Yeah, I've been self-hosting a lot Wes. |
| 1:04.6 | I have like 10 things on my Koolify. |
| 1:07.2 | I just migrated my entire Koolify |
| 1:09.8 | to an arm-based server on Hetsner, and I cut my bill down from 60 bucks a month to five euros a month so I don't know what that it translates to but it's just about nothing and man is that, the resource usage is like, |
| 1:25.0 | so I have my analytics server, I got several backends running on there, |
| 1:29.6 | all kinds of stuff. |
| 1:30.7 | And you could even host, guess who? |
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