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How does NGINX handle SSL termination — what is the benefit of terminating SSL at the load balancer instead of at each backend?
Tests whether you know centralizing TLS termination simplifies certificate management and offloads CPU work from application servers.
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How does NGINX handle SSL termination — what is the benefit of terminating SSL at the load balancer instead of at each backend?