Thanks Ben. I use RoboCopy quite a bit to do disk to disk backups on
our LAN. Very powerful.
You mentioned something else that I've seen in print before, but I'm not
familiar with the concept: How/why would you implement a three-stage
development => staging => production approach? Development and
production servers I understand, but whats the purpose of 'staging'
servers?
Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Prater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, September 08, 2000 8:18 PM
Subject: RE: CF Clustering
>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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