Jim,
If you are looking for a really low cost solution --
I would recommend using WLBS (Windows Load Balancing S?) -- provided free by
Microsoft -- for load balancing between two webservers. With it -- you can
adjust load between machines, assign one IP address to the entire cluster,
etc.
For replication on the cheap, look for a program called RoboCopy.exe in the
NT Resource Kit. You can write a simple script that can transfer files from
development to staging to production machines with the click of a mouse.
(It's pretty damn fast too, only copying new files. In tests, I've seen a
cluster updated in seconds.)
Ben
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim McAtee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 7:41 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: CF Clustering
>
>
> Does anyone have a link or pointer to information regarding how to
> cluster CF web servers? We're looking to upgrade our web and database
> servers and I'd like to hear about the various approaches taken to
> clustering CF web servers.
>
> Ideally, I'd like to achieve load-balancing and failover via redundancy.
> For our purposes the load-balancing doesn't have to be perfect, but the
> failover must be automatic and transparent. I'm assuming we'd run
> several redundant web/CF servers connected to a common MS SQL server.
> For the time being, I don't think we'd run a common fileserver for the
> web site templates or other static content. Files would need to be
> replicated on all servers.
>
> With this configuration, I was wondering about things like the best way
> to (1) achieve the load balancing (hardware and/or software needs?),
> considering that CF sessions need to be maintained (2) a good means of
> replicating content accross servers (3) other considerations?
>
> Thanks for any input,
> Jim
>
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