Reverse Proxy Explained¶

This document details on how a reverse proxy is used in my home lab. A reverse proxy redirects incoming traffic for a website to its host.

What is a Reverse Proxy¶

It secures the host by obfuscation and direct access. It improves performance by load-balancing traffic to multiple servers, caching content and provides SSL termination by handling encryption and decryption of data.

Network Architecture¶

The reverse proxy on my network consists of a main reverse proxy server and two back-end proxy servers. Traffic is sent from the front-end server to either of the two back-end proxy server. The two back-end servers are configured for redundancy. If the primary server fails, traffic is sent to the secondary. The back-end proxy servers direct traffic to the target host.