No, you don't need lb/failover services of Enterprise with a hardware load balancer...
At my last big site we used a Foundry lb with several webservers. If you use session variables, be sure to use the datasource method rather than registry - this was a user can pass from machine to machine without issue. We setup each machine to mount a shared webroot from a fileserver, so that there were no code "distribution" issues, all machines used the same webroot. Also, each machine was addressable at its own unique hostname, but since the load balancer answered as "www", we were able to use the same ssl certificate (www.domain.com) on each machine with error (unless you hit it with its hostname specifically). > I was wondering if I passed the job of load balancing to a third party > hardware solution, do I still need to use Enterprise? > > TIA, > Dave > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
