System and method for deterministic hash addressing

An infrastructure service comprising:

• A load balancer comprising:
• one or more computer readable storage media;
• a processing system operatively coupled with the one or more computer readable storage media;
• and
• program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage media and executed by the processing system, wherein the program instructions instruct the load balancer to distribute incoming messages to a group of multiple servers communally addressed by a first address at least by processing a portion of a first incoming message through a hash function to produce first hash results, and using the first hash results to determine a first receiving server, from the group of multiple servers, to receive the first incoming message;
• the first receiving server comprising:
• one or more server computer readable storage media;
• a server processing system operatively coupled with the one or more server computer readable storage media;
• and
• server program instructions stored on the one or more server computer readable storage media and executed by the server processing system, wherein the server program instructions instruct the first receiving server to send a request for first content to an origin server, the request comprising information expected to be copied into a reply message from the origin server, and the information expected to be copied configured to predetermine results of the hash function such that the predetermined hash results determine that the first receiving server will receive the reply message from the origin server;
• wherein the program instructions further instruct the load balancer to:
• receive the reply message from the origin server;
• process at least a portion of the reply message through the hash function to produce the predetermined hash results;
• and
• send the reply message to the first receiving server.