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Understanding nginx (proxying, reverse proxying, load balancing)

Osita Chibuike on May 23, 2018

This piece was originally posted on my blog at legobox Background Many think of Nginx as just a web server, yep it's a web server, an...
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Harvey Jones

Thanks Osita I am currently trying to access how much easier can Nginx can make laod balancing. So far there are only two article I have found useful. Your and this one on Why use Nginx for load balancing.

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Adarsh.K.Kumar

Thanks for the post Osita, really helpful.
When I started reading was thinking of writing a similar post using caddy and then saw your closing notes.

What I like most most about caddy is automatic SSL with let's encrypt among other features.

Looking forward for part two.

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Osita Chibuike

Sorry I stopped writing for a while, but I did write the caddy article, you can check it out using the link. dev.to/legobox/another-kickass-ser...