The PowerServer Web APIs is a standard ASP.NET Core application, and it can be hosted in the Kestrel web server, with or without using a reverse proxy server.
In the following graph, the PowerServer Web APIs is hosted in Kestrel and Kestrel is used as an edge (Internet-facing) server without a reverse proxy server.
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Kestrel serves the dynamic content (such as data processing tasks) from the PowerServer Web APIs.
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The web server (such as IIS, Apache, Nignx etc.) and the Kestrel server can reside in the same or different machine.
In the following graph, the PowerServer Web APIs is hosted in Kestrel, and Kestrel is used in a reverse proxy configuration.
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Kestrel serves the dynamic content (such as data processing tasks) from the PowerServer Web APIs.
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The reverse proxy server (such as IIS, Nginx, Apache etc.) forwards the requests to the PowerServer Web APIs running in Kestrel. The reverse proxy server may reside on a dedicated machine or may be deployed alongside a web server.
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The web server (such as IIS, Apache, Nignx etc.), the reverse proxy server, and the Kestrel server can reside in the same or different machine.
