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Is a reverse proxy necessary to access remote services when I already use a vpn? (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey! Sorry for the repeating question, I have a very specific question though.

For context, I access my services using a vpn, and that's been great. However, I've been a lot of people mentioning reverse proxies. Are they necessary or more of a convenience thing? I ask because I don't see something that I cannot do with my current vpn setup.

Thanks!

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[–] darth_helmet 1 points 10 months ago

No, a reverse proxy is for a web service provider to use, usually for wiring up different backends for different routes, having one place to do rate limiting and tls termination etc. A forward-proxy (or just “proxy) functions in a way that is similar to a vpn, but you don’t need both and a vpn is more thorough in the types of traffic it supports and the security of encryption it provides.