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If have a two to three servers and want to create a highly available with the capacity and ability to handle many connections using IIS, what technology is available to me? Also if I want to using web caching, is there a product that can interact with IIS and coldfusion & .NET that I can use without too much programming?
How do I created a web server farm using IIS?
a hardware load balancer that does L4 load balancing setup in DSR mode
IIS installed
one backend FILER that stores the data...
the processing can be done on your servers..files are fetched from the filer and displayed...
the Load Balancer just distributes traffic evenly across your servers...
You can probably also get by using a squid proxy on the front end (which would require you to have a Unix machine on the front end).
I think there is also an option within IIS for "farming" but you're better off offloading that to a front end load balancer..
How do I created a web server farm using IIS?
The best route is to cluster your servers for high capacity and availability. It provides fault tolerance, load balancing, etc. With your servers clustered, it's then just a matter of configuring IIS with multiple websites. Clustering is a built-in feature of 2003 Enterprise.
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