Will an Nginx as reverse proxy for Apache help on dynamic content only

Question

I am planning to move all my static content to a CDN so on my server I only have dynamic content left. I now have Nginx set up as reverse proxy to Apache. The static request tha

Answer 1

You can also use nginx to offload SSL processing from the apache instances.

For example, we have one stack configured with nginx->haproxy->pool of apache servers. nginx and haproxy live together on a heartbeat cluster and feed requests into a pool of apache boxes on the backend. We install all the SSL certs on the nginx frontend.