A reverse proxy hides the identity of your web server(s); combined with a WAF, your site is therefore protected against denial of service attacks (e.g., reverse proxy/CDN service providers like Cloudflare, which underlies IBM Cloud Internet Services). This article goes into a lot more detail: www.cloudflare.com/learning/cdn/glossary/reverse-proxy/ But denying attacks wasn't the point of this video, it was dealing with "badly behaved" bots that consume server resources and impact performance -- and don't trigger the defenses of reverse proxy/CDN service providers.
Additionally to the above answer reverse proxy can do a load balancing. and serve static content from cache ( like a CDN ) or perform the role of API gateway - ie perform rate limiting based on dynamic rules. This way bad bots can be filtered out as well....
@@homebarista okay the internet not get to see your address but the reverse proxy server's. But for the sake of ddos it could happen even after proxy as traffic is coming to you atlast.
What the need for reverse proxy when it's waf that blocks the ip. And does the work
A reverse proxy hides the identity of your web server(s); combined with a WAF, your site is therefore protected against denial of service attacks (e.g., reverse proxy/CDN service providers like Cloudflare, which underlies IBM Cloud Internet Services). This article goes into a lot more detail: www.cloudflare.com/learning/cdn/glossary/reverse-proxy/ But denying attacks wasn't the point of this video, it was dealing with "badly behaved" bots that consume server resources and impact performance -- and don't trigger the defenses of reverse proxy/CDN service providers.
Additionally to the above answer reverse proxy can do a load balancing. and serve static content from cache ( like a CDN ) or perform the role of API gateway - ie perform rate limiting based on dynamic rules. This way bad bots can be filtered out as well....
@@homebarista okay the internet not get to see your address but the reverse proxy server's. But for the sake of ddos it could happen even after proxy as traffic is coming to you atlast.
@@Flankymangacan't these things could be done by web server itself
@@homebaristatrue
very helpful thank you