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!

  • SillyLilBearBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    If you want to protect data on your local network (and you should) you will want a reverse proxy to allow you to use SSL on all your services. A reverse proxy allows you to easily implement SSL on apps that are only exposed as HTTP (unencrypted).