Forward vs Reverse Proxy: What's the Difference and When Should You Use Each? Alternatively: Forward

Struggled with this too until I *had* to set up both for work.

Forward proxy = Outbound traffic control (e.g., block social media).
Reverse proxy = Inbound traffic manager (e.g., route api.mysite.com to port 3000).

Apache httpd can do both, but it’s clunky. Nginx all the way for reverse.