It has been a difficult topic to research. The nginx instance is doing nothing more than what the subject stated. It reverse proxies to a backend, load balanced set of web app instances and terminates SSL for a large number of unique domains each with their own SSL cert. Here's a `ps aux` of nginx running after a clean start and zero (out of rotation) traffic. root 20 0 676052 598224by onecrazymonkey - Nginx Mailing List - English