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Reverse Proxy for Replacement of S3 Frontend #66

Open maxdobeck opened 5 years ago

maxdobeck commented 5 years ago

Replace the static s3 files with an actual webserver or set of static files served up by a reverse proxy like NGINX.

Why use a Reverse Proxy?

https://www.nginx.com/resources/glossary/reverse-proxy-server/
S3 and Cloudfront are wayyy to slow to update. This is partly by design but in the case of an emergency a quick update may be needed.
Security and more control over who hits the frontend.

HTTPS

Lets Encrypt
https://certbot.eff.org/lets-encrypt/ubuntuxenial-nginx