What is “Reverse Proxy” and “Load Balancing” in Nginx / Web server terms?
问题 These are two phrases I hear about very often, mainly associated with Nginx. Can someone give me a laymans defintion? 回答1: Definitions are often difficult to understand. I guess you just need some explanation for their use case. A short explanation is: load balancing is one of the functionalities of reverse proxy, and reverse proxy is one of the softwares that can do load balancing. And a long explanation is given below. For example a service of your company has customers in UK and German.