What’s the difference between a proxy and reverse proxy? Which one should I use? or How do proxy and

Kinda oversimplifying, but:

- Proxy: Your buddy who fetches stuff for you anonymously.
- Reverse proxy: The bouncer at a club, deciding who gets in and where they go.

For websites, reverse proxies (like *NGINX* or *Apache*) handle traffic, SSL, and even cache stuff. For personal use, a VPN or *Shadowsocks* works.

Confused about configs? DigitalOcean has solid tutorials on both proxy and reverse proxy setups.