Section 2 — Getting Started

Kestrel and Other Servers

Application Servers

• Kestrel

Reverse Proxy Servers

• IIS
• Nginx
• Apache

Benefits of Reverse Proxy Servers

• Load Balancing
• Caching
• URL Rewriting
• Decompressing the requests
• Authentication
• Decryption of SSL Certificates

IIS express

• HTTP access logs
• Port sharing
• Windows authentication
• Management console
• Process activation
• Configuration API
• Request filters
• HTTP redirect rules