Reverse Proxy vs Proxy Server: What's the Real Difference and Which One Should You Use? Alternatively, if yo

Thanks for all the insights, everyone! This reverse proxy vs proxy server stuff makes way more sense now.

I think I’ll start with Cloudflare since it seems to cover both bases. Might try NGINX later if I dive deeper into self-hosting.

Quick follow-up: Anyone got tips for debugging reverse proxy configs? Mine keeps throwing 502 errors lol.