I was able to get basic SSL working with basically no effort just by Googling around for 'SSL nginx'; the Mozilla article doesn't tell you to choose a ciphersuite, it tells you 'use this one unless you know what you're doing'. And then if you scroll down it gives you some configuration directives you can just copy-paste into your browser config file.

I'm not even an ops guy and I was able to get it working for my (granted, fairly simple) site without any pain.