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Re:SimpleW – Web Server Library .NET Core by p_ing on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @12:28PM (#44800187)
A web server should never be directly exposed to the Internet, provided you care about the web server host or what's behind it.
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Re:SimpleW – Web Server Library .NET Core by ofrzeta on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @12:39PM (#44800393)
> A web server should never be directly exposed to the Internet

That's what web servers are made for, no? Like Apache, Nginx etc. I mean, you could certainly put HAProxy in front but you'd need a good reason to do this.

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Re:SimpleW – Web Server Library .NET Core by CharlieDigital on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @04:10PM (#44803610)
This is not the case for the modern Internet.

More often than not, for any serious application backend, you probably want a web application firewall (WAF) in front of it and SSL termination upstream of the web server.

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Re:SimpleW – Web Server Library .NET Core by SideburnsOfDoom on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @02:34AM (#44808453)
And also a reverse proxy / Load balancer in front of multiple Webserver instances.
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