Hello,

I have an asp.net application developed and I want to create a simple application server failover solution, basically I want an active/passive server arrangement and the ability to create some sort of dynamic ip address, which will be associated to the passive server when the active server goes down thus making my passive server the active one and the user will just have to log back onto the application again (without having to change the url), can anyone recommend a solution/software to do this for me or does DNS have a feature that will do this for me. I am using windows 2000 server and my application uses caching and session variables so I want to avoid web farms for the time being. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

thanks in advance,

Al0

there are service providers specialize in this type of dns failover, however, there's no reason why you couldn't do it yourself.

If you have your own server, and feel confident enough, host the DNS either on the passive server or some "monitor" server. This is where something like http://www.dyndns.com/ comes in handy.

If you use SQL Server, you could take advantage of log shipping or database mirroring. :)

Will have a look at that, thanks for your help,

Al0