Proxy vs Reverse Proxy Server Explained 

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I love the way you teach, humble, fun and very informative

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Whenever I have some free time, I open up one of your videos. Always learned a lot. Thanks!

Hello Hussein. Your content is outstanding and as a currently front end engineer, it helps a lot explaining all these back end terms in an ELI5 perspective. Keep up the great work. Cheers

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My god man... I have been trying to come up with a decent way to understand proxies at all, much less reverse proxy and this FINALLY made it click! Thank you so much!

Found a vid of yours by coincidence and I must agree with the rest of the ppl, the way you deliver the message is different from others, good job!

when I watch your videos, I am always enlightened about how much I have learn more than the content you have to offer

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For visual learners I must say it would be better if you could have some visible pointer like sometimes the mouse pointer gets lost in the contrast colors and it gets a bit difficult which "this" "this" you're pointing to. 😅 Well, excellent work Hussein, Thanks for the content.

I like this icons, there are much better to remember Use Cases :)

Thank you for the helpful videos. I have always wanted to know deeper things about Backend Engineering and never found such relevant content. I have also started reading your Medium articles and I hope to become a better Engineer. You sir, give me hope 🙏

Thank you for the clear illustrations. I'm a visual learner and I really appreciated them. I love illustrations/diagrams. Forward Proxy and Reverse Proxy in general don't seem like the best terms but perhaps when they were created it made sense within the initial context. Either way, good stuff. Subscribing!

You are learning Kubernetes, and you are expecting to understand one concept, reverse proxy; voila, this video will not only tell you about reverse proxy also tells its use cases in the Kubernetes environment. The video exceeded the expectations.

I am watching ur videos from last few weeks, all Your content is really unique, and technically rich.

Cheers Hussien, your videos are fantastic ( simplifying complex content using not only effective communication but also topping it up with excellent animation .. very Refreshing) . God Bless you Man , please keep up the good work.

These videos are so useful to refresh your understanding / memory.

Hey, I watched many of your videos. Really like the way you explain the concepts. Hats off and thank you very much. Having said that , In this video I just felt “Reverse proxy “ as a topic is not clear to yourself like me

you made things simple because btw it is ! the way you teach, THE BEST thanks a lot

You don't need to animate if it takes a good chunk of your time. Your explanations are good enough with static icons even.

It is an amazing video. The way you have taught the concepts and the visuals you have used combined gives an amazing output.

Can we say in proxy, the client is aware it communicates through a proxy server to the destination. While in reverse proxy the client assumes the proxy is the destination.

Thank you Hussein, you did a great job 👌🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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Gosh... just found Hussein's channel serching for some explanation about Nginx. This video and the 2018 one are amazing! I can even feel the emotion through this complex theme, easy to follow explanations and examples. And, of course, the visual material became *awesome*. Good job friend!

:) IMHO Reverse proxy is 2nd thing every engineer should learn right after learning Ansible. :) I agree that most of the advertised VPNs are garbage. :) The only VPN i use is the one i personally set up to connect to my clients internal network to manage their network and devices. I personally currently use HAProxy at home, but mentally leaning towards Istio/Envoy because i am slowly migrating into service mesh. One important point of reverse proxy is ability to secure your perimeter by implementing HTTP/2 at the edge. So you don't need (BUT YOU SHOULD) to care about all that certificate mess at applications level. Basically proxy, can handle security of all your traffic. No matter do you run WordPress, Postfix, Jenkins or any other externally exposed application. All you need is an proxy and single wildcard Let'sEncrypt TLS.

Thank you for the update, excellent examples

You have a really engaging style. Great vid, thanks!

5:15 this is gold. In the reverse proxy, the client doesn't know the final destination

Great improvement in quality

First of all, thank you for this great video! Second, as I know, proxy doesn’t provide tunneling option, and it’s the difference between vpn and proxy , but you explained tunneling while explaining proxy. Could you please clarify it for me?

The image is king!

Insightful video, keep it up!

Informative, thanks.

Great content, very clear and simple. Thank you

It was interactive and very light even then the explanation looked detailed. I wanted to refresh few facts. Really nice watching it. 😉

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Amazing tutorials, it makes sense

Thank you much..... you create really great videos.......

Love you bro you are my true mentor

I am in love with this channel !!

Great video. Thanks

Great content! My new favorite channel!

Thanks for the video!

I am a network guy and a random recommendation got me to this wonderful video. Good to refresh some of the tech terms I always forget. Can you please let me know what software/app you are using to make those video Hussein? The animation is too good :)

Thank you for these videos! They are really great and helpful to learn. Trying to wrap my head around this concept, I know this is probably an oversimplified statement, but could you say that a machine could be identified as a Proxy if it is placed in front / handles routing (or headers, etc.) of a machine making a Request, while a reverse-proxy is placed in front / handles routing of a server issuing a Response ?

You are amazing explaining!

Thanks, great examples!

thanks i love your teaching

wow!! great content, great explanation.. super clear!!! thanks!

Thanks for all the amazing content, Hussein. A video on Traefik would be nice.

Hello Hussein, What are the most relevant HTTP header values ​​for a proxy? Server, Date, Content-type, Expires or Last-Modified?

excellent as always

Great video with easy to understand explanations!

“Reverse proxy is the ‘reverse’. it’s very confusing - I know”. You’re the only one to call out the elephant in the room re: the naming format. The name format is a curveball to the true meaning behind the 2 terms.

Cool animations very valuable information

Amazing content. Thankssss!!!!!!!!

This video is excellent, thanks

you are the best..

Thanks for sharing

thanks for this videos

Really great video, learning so much. I have a question, on some specific servers we need to set proxies to access web content, so I know now that setting proxy now allows my requests to go through them which is then served to me but why am I not able to access any content without the proxy, is it because some kind of local certificates that is checked which is used when relaying the content through proxy or is there some other mechanism at play here?

Great video. Just a question. Can a reverse proxy machine go down because of say a DDoS attack? If yes can we have a backup reverse proxy machine?

watching his videos since 2k subs..

Good explanation. What tool did you use to create the video?

fucking brilliant video mate, thanks so much

Thank you, how did you make your animation? It's just SO helpful

I don’t feel like reverse proxy name is the best descriptive name

Thank you

Thank you so much

At 13:20 you refrain from using the word "tunnels" for HTTP proxies, I wonder anything wrong with saying "http proxy only 'tunnels' traffic for http" ??

Hi Hussein, Another great video and quality content. I also always get confused between both when I started my industry journey to till today special due to proxy now being used with Kubernetes as side-car containers and reverse proxy outside of pods for load balancing. Can you make video about things like Linkered, NGNIX Ingress, Istio, Envoy etc. Regards, Ratnadeep

fantastic!

As always very informative for me. Sir can you please upload videos on load balancing

Your content is awesome as usual. This animation on content slide is something that caught all my attention, this time. What tool have you used, can you share the template :)

It seems as though it is time to follow the pattern and make a new version of the video.

Thanks!

make your mouse cursor little bit bigger while recording video for youtube so that it will be easier to follow your mouse cursor. Make a light colr cursor

How does ssl proxy work .. certificates are from server to client.. wondering what role the proxy can play when the negotiation for SSL has happened end to end. Does all SSL proxy terminate the TLS if not then kindly explain how ..

My first thought: What’s the difference between proxy and a VPN gateway?

reverse proxy is badass trully

Nice video, Did you make video on HA(High Availability), like VM level HA, or microservice level HA. If not kindly make a video on it.

Hey Hussein Great tutorial (as always)! I would suggest using less graphics :)

@hussein Nasser: could please give difference between canary and A/B testing ??

Sir, please make a video on how to set up a tunnel to the local network in case of a Carrier Grade Nat which blocks all inbound requests from the Internet ....... This would benefit a large group of people who want remote access to their own pc without begging their Local ISP for a static IP or for opening ports. In my case, I have been banging my head trying to figuring how to get things to work on Plex and Emby Media Server.

Merci

i have a Irrelevant question : whats your slides maker software?😅

Can you suggest some books to learn about proxy and reverse proxy? Can't afford web courses might find books for free :)

I like it

Great content, Sir, but here is one problem - constant quick animation is distracting. I like when you animate stuff to show some change or process, but here - please just don't.

so is spring cloud gateway a type of reverse proxy ingres use case ?

thx

RFC number for forward proxy? 👀

If vpn doesn’t give full anonymity, what does or is full anonymity possible?

So does it means all the Loadbalancers implements reverse proxy architecture?

If there's an ISP's Proxy and Google's reverse proxy would be there, the client doesn't know the actual server and the server doesn' know the actual client. Is that right?