Cloudflare is moving away from Nginx
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
We will start by demystifying a few concepts. Cloudflare is a content delivery network (CDN) that primarily acts as a reverse proxy between a website visitor and a Cloudflare customer.
A reverse proxy is an intermediate connection point that sits in front of a web server and receives all the requests before they reach the origin server. A reverse proxy handles requests from the user on behalf of the server. The client does not realize that another server processed its request because it only talks directly with the reverse proxy server. It can check for authorization, and authentication or even do rate limiting on behalf of the actual web server. Here is a diagrammatic representation of a reverse proxy.
A proxy, on the other hand, is an intermediate connection point that sits in front of a client and a web server that handles traffic routing between clients and a web server, typically one outside the network. By doing this, it can enforce security protocols, convert and mask client IP addresses, control traffic per predefined policies, and prevent…
