Do you use a reverse proxy?

Using a reverse proxy is kinda the default for the "normal" web, but what about gemini?

on one hand, you probably don't need it right now with the current community size (and how nice people seem to behave).

on the other hand, I don't want to blindly trust the internet to not be mean to server infrastructure and I'm not sure if every gemini server out there has protection mechanisms like basic rate-limiting.

Poll Results

1. Nope

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2. Yes

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3. Not now, but aware of the option

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25 votes were cast.

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๐Ÿš€ fstfabi

Apr 17 ยท 3 weeks ago ยท ๐Ÿ‘ mozz, ghost

7 Comments โ†“

๐Ÿš€ stack ยท Apr 17 at 13:25:

You should probably add "what's a reverse proxy?"

๐Ÿ‘ป ps ยท Apr 17 at 13:37:

I'm looking for caching proxy only, to store visited pages for the offline reading

๐Ÿš€ SavaRocks ยท Apr 17 at 19:09:

nginx proxy manager here :-)

Didn't have any issues with it ... yet

๐Ÿฆ roughnecks ยท Apr 17 at 20:23:

nginx, because I had different gemini services. Now I have shut down one and the other would be a bubble instance, which still doesn't work behind a proxy (and I have shut down that too, even because there were no users - it was for Italian people). So now the proxy is not very useful to me, in that regard.

๐Ÿฆ” bsj38381 ยท Apr 17 at 20:26:

I personally never used a reverse proxy, I might've read about it, but I'm not sure.

๐Ÿš€ stack ยท Apr 17 at 22:43:

was seriously considering setting one up, but couldn't remember my home router password to punch a DMZ port. Forgot about it until now. Guess I don't need it that much.

โ˜•๏ธ Alnotz ยท Apr 24 at 08:59:

Idem. I use nginx as reverse proxy. The Geminispace is not a local network.