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I can see how you're not yet familiar with all these terms :p Both nginx and apache are http servers and work the exact same in your case.
The server (apache or nginx) listens on the IP on port 80 and 443. Depending on the hostname that is used to connect, the request is proxied to a different location. Apache calls this virtual hosts, nginx call this virtual servers