Reverse Proxy vs Forward Proxy: What's the Difference and When to Use Each? or Reverse Proxy vs Forwa

OP here—wow, thanks for all the replies!

This makes way more sense now. The whole "who’s being hidden" thing clicked.

Gonna try setting up NGINX as a reverse proxy for my side project.

Quick follow-up: Anyone got tips for debugging reverse proxy configs? I keep getting 502 errors.

Thanks again!