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A web server should never be directly exposed to the Internet, provided you care about the web server host or what's behind it.
by p_ing 1y ago
A web server should never be directly exposed to the Internet, provided you care about the web server host or what's behind it.
- ofrzeta 1y ago> A web server should never be directly exposed to the Internet That's what web servers are made for, no? Like Apache, Nginx etc. I mean, you could certainly put HAProxy in front but you'd need a good reason to do this.
- CharlieDigital 1y agoThis is not the case for the modern Internet. More often than not, for any serious application backend, you probably want a web application firewall (WAF) in front of it and SSL termination upstream of the web server.
- SideburnsOfDoom 1y agoAnd also a reverse proxy / Load balancer in front of multiple Webserver instances.