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yes it does, and it does it very well, but that wasn't what was being discussed - load balancing means >1 server, but what was being discussed was proxying, passing certain requests through to another machine (the same in this case) for certain requests, like css, jpg etc.
you asked for advice, we're all giving advice ;)

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