Reverse Proxy & Load-balancing Origin Servers

Hello everyone

I understand that I can use Squid in a reverse proxy configuration to
accelerate our webservers. Can squid also load-balance requests
across the webservers? For example, if I have 5 webservers, can Squid
load-balancing the requests across those 5 webservers? If so, can it
do full-featured load-balancing, including heath-checks on the origin
servers?

Also, can it maintain session-state for users, so if User A's initial
request went to orgin server 1, then all of User A's subsequent
requests for non-cachable objects will continue to go to orgin server
1? The reason I ask, is because some of the websites we want to
accelerate maintain session-state with the user, and if that user is
not directed to the same origin server for each request, the session
is broken.

Thanks
Sean

http://www.safesquid.com/html/portal.php?page=46

On Oct 20, 8:51 am, sean <rse...@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.safesquid.com/html/portal.php?page=46

Thanks for the reply, but that link didn't fully answer my questions.
While squid can load-balance requests across orgin servers, can it
also perform health-check on the origin servers? In addition, does it
have the ability to ensure that a user's subsequent requests are
forwarded to the same origin server as the user's initial request?

thanks
Sean