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

Kinda niche, but if you're into gaming servers, reverse proxies (like NGINX) help route traffic to different game instances.

Regular proxies? Meh, unless you're bypassing geo-blocks or something.

BTW, Apache can do reverse proxy too, but NGINX is just... smoother?