There are only 2³² = 4,294,967,296 IP possible addresses in version 4 (IPv4) and around 8,000,000,000 people in the world. So it means that only roughly half of the citizens can have one IP address. It’s a big limitation considering at least a few devices per one person. So there are two solutions for this …
What is the difference between 127.0.0.1 and 0.0.0.0 when you bind your server to one of them? Simple answer is – 127.0.0.1 never goes outside your machine, whereas 0.0.0.0 do. 0.0.0.0 So as depicted in the picture – when your server is bound to 0.0.0.0 it means that it listens to all interfaces (traffic comming …
CDN stands for Content Delivery Network and it’s idea is simple – instead of serving content from one server, let’s put multiple replicas (with the same content) in different geographical places. So thanks to this an application can gain multiple benefits:– faster loading time– reduced traffic on the main server– better reliability (if one server …
There are basically two types of proxies: forward and reverse proxy. Usually, when people say „proxy,” they mean a forward proxy. If they want to talk about a reverse proxy, then they use the full name – reverse proxy. What is a proxy? A proxy is just a computer/machine/service between a client and a server. …
