Quick Question: Reverse Proxy

[bzowk]

Afternoon Guys -

This may be a newb question, but one that's been bugging me. I've been using UseNet (SABnzbd, SIckBeard (now using NZBDrone) CouchPotato, etc) for about a year now and love it. One option/feature with these services that I've never comprehended in "Reverse Proxy." I work in IT and have actually set up many forward proxy servers before as well as numerous other servers - but - have never worked with reverse before.

Basically my question is: What "feature(s)" does adding/enabling Reverse Proxy add?

Thanks!

[sander]

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_proxy

[bzowk]

Yes, thank you - I found and read that Wiki before posting.

My question is - given all that it says, how can it specifically be applied to Usenet apps (SABnzbd, NZBDrone, CouchPotato, etc...) In other words, if enabled and properly configured, what differences or advantage would it provide?

Example - On my "home server," I host the following web services. They are all accessable via specific ports (Name & Port listed - all are HTTPS)
- SABnzbd:9090
- NZBDrone:9898
- SickBeard:8081 (prior to NABDrone)
- CouchPotato: 5050
- Headphones: 8181
- Maraschino: 7000
- VMWare Workstation Shared VMs: 444
- Serv-U: 443
- plus others in development

The reason I"m asking is because if it would make management of them easier or increase performance, I'd like to know how.

Thanks!


Thanks

[sander]

You can hide those services behind each own webpage, so something like http://www.yoursystem.org/sabnzbd. See http://wiki.sabnzbd.org/howto-apache

That causes more management (apache), and will not increase speed (redirection).