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I am running several sites i.e. portals developed in DNN and would to know is it possible to run them in a load balanced environment?  If so what is the best way to install them i.e. using host headers or.....

Thanks

Msuk

Can you explain in detail the (clustered) environment your proposing? Are you looking at a hardware or software load-balancing? Or perhaps simply using DFS?

Hi,

I have 5 websevers that are running Windows 2000 SP4 with IIS that have their own internal IP.  We are using a hardware content switch that has a rule set up to check if any of the 5 websevers are available, if so the request is sent to that server. 

The rule is simply based on the ip address of our external site that maps to one of the available webservers.  I simply thought to make each DNN site i.e. portal host headered, would this be a good solution?

Thanks

msuk

 

The problem arises with this set-up though. Unless there is a DFS or some sort of syncronizing of files between servers, requests/uploads that are serviced by "Web01" may (will) not be available to "Web02, 03, etc.". Obiviously the database reference path will be there, but the physical file will not.

Now the problem I have with DFS it creates a single point of failure. But that's for another subject.

Hi,

Sync'ing of the files from serer to sever is a manual process at the moment i.e. taking the complete DNN folder from the master web server e.g. Web01 and robocopying over to the rest of the servers. 

Thanks

Msuk

I have installaions that use both hardware and software clustering. Obiviously hardware is the prefered method, but for those on a budget, Windows 2003 Web Edition has a built in load balancer thatdoes a pretty good job.

If you decide to move ahead withdoing so, Iwould recommend using a sync product such as PeerSync, it does a nice job of real-time replication of files without eating a great deal of overhead.

Best of Luck...