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dorianniemiec on April 5, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ferron – A fast, memory-safe web server written in...

The problem is that you will have more moving parts - a web server, and an additional reverse proxy (which can add overhead). Also, Ferron can also be configured as a reverse proxy.

yencabulator on April 5, 2025 [–]

For many uses, the reverse proxy is the cloud load balancer. That's probably what the grandparent is thinking too.

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