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You might have seen many articles on the internet regarding Nginx and how we can use Nginx for load balancing and reverse proxy.  In this article, I would like to share my experience of setting up Nginx for load balancing and reverse proxy with SSL termination in Nginx.

Are Reverse Proxy and Load Balancer Similar?

Though both terminologies sound similar, a reverse proxy accepts requests from clients and forwards the request to servers for the actual processing.  The reverse proxy relays the results from servers to the client. 

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