Jim,
Not all organizations use staging servers -- but many companies, Allaire
included, recommend this step.
Sometimes the development servers are pummelled the hell out of -- and an
interim process of using staging servers -- set up exactly as production
servers -- allow testing changes and updates in exactly the same environment
as the production machines.
Sometimes little things will slip by when going straight from development to
production -- it's a good safety measure -- albeit more expensive to add a
staging setup.
Ben
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim McAtee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2000 1:32 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: CF Clustering
>
>
> 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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