Reverse proxies in 2026: revisit NGINX, Caddy and HAProxy before you put another proxy in front of your app

• Manoj Shukla
• October 28, 2026

Almost every web application we run has something sitting in front of it. A few virtual machines run the actual code, and one or two small servers in front of them accept HTTPS, keep certificates, spread traffic, hide a dead backend and write the access log.