How do I set up global load balancing using Digital Ocean DNS and Nginx?

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UPDATE: See the answer I\'ve provided below for the solution I eventually got set up on AWS.

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Digital Ocean now supports Load Balancing of servers itself. It is extremely easy to set up and works great! Saves you having to add in unnecessary components such as nginx (if you only want to use for load balancing).

We were having issues using SSL file uploads with nginx on a digital ocean server, however since the Digital Ocean update, we have removed nginx and now use Digital Ocean's load balancing feature and it works just as we need it to!