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A reverse proxy is a server that forwards client requests to other servers and hides the origin servers from the Internet. Reverse proxies can improve performance, security and scalability, but also pose risks of data breach, malware and outage.
Squid is a free software that can speed up web servers, filter traffic, and cache network lookups. It supports HTTP, FTP, SSL, TLS, and HTTPS protocols, and can run as a daemon on Unix-like systems or Windows with Cygwin.
HAProxy is a free and open source software that provides a high availability load balancer and proxy for TCP and HTTP-based applications. It supports Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, AIX, macOS and Cygwin platforms.
Nginx is a popular and high-performance web server that can also act as a reverse proxy, load balancer, mail proxy and HTTP cache. It was created by Russian developer Igor Sysoev in 2004 and is free and open-source software, with a paid Plus version for advanced features.
A proxy server is a server application that acts as an intermediary between a client requesting a resource and the server providing that resource. Learn about the different types of proxy servers, such as forward, reverse, open, anonymous, transparent, and reverse proxies, and their functions and benefits.
Pound is a lightweight open source reverse proxy program and application firewall suitable to be used as a web server load balancing solution. Originally developed by an IT security company, it has a strong emphasis on security.
Learn about the discontinued software suite that provided secure remote access to corporate networks. UAG offered reverse proxy, VPN, DirectAccess and Remote Desktop Services, and was acquired by Microsoft in 2006.
Varnish is a free and open source software that speeds up web sites and APIs by caching and serving HTTP requests. Learn about its history, architecture, features, performance metrics, and monitoring tools.