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How do you manage large web farms?

I have a quickly growing web farm running IIS 7 (30+ servers). All servers are identical copies of each other and all servers are physical. We update the software about once a month, and in the current process, we follow the following…
Andrew Katz
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Should web farms be concerned with TLS handshake overhead

I have a web farm where the web servers are responsible for negotiating the secure connections. Does anyone else with a web farm go out of their way to reduce TLS handshake overhead by ensuring that TLS resume handshakes are supported? And if so,…
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Web Farm Framework - Missing IIS features

I'm trying to install a web farm using Microsoft's Web Farm Framework 2.2. The server is Windows 2008 R2 with IIS 7.5. I followed a tutorial. Installed WFF from Web Platform Installer. However, I'm missing some key features in the "Server Farm"…
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server farm setup for a large Drupal site

I'm setting up a large Drupal (Pressflow) site and this is my current plan. Have I gone and done anything blatantly stupid? Does anyone have any experience hosting a large, multi-server Drupal installation like this?
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ARR mixing HTTP server variables among client users

What I am trying to do? I am setting up blue-green deployment to achieve zero down-time deployment. How is the implementation? I have one server. I created a web farm. I set 3 websites blue,green,main at different ports. Main handles all…
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IIS7 web farm - local or shared content?

We're setting up an IIS7 web farm with two servers. Should each server have its own local copy of the content, or should they pull content directly from a UNC share? What are the pros and cons of each approach? We currently have a single live…
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Clustering IIS and SQL Server

I have a WCF service deployed on IIS and using SQL Server 2008 as backend. My question is: How can I make cluster(load-balance/fail-over) on IIS and on SQL Server and what sort of thing do I need to keep in mind before doing this? (e.g. do I have…
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How to set up ARR in active/passive (aka failover) mode?

The Problem I am trying to configure several web farms (for different sites) following the NLB+ARR architecture. Let's say I have 6 VMs: ARR+NLB cluster of 2 VMs. It receives traffic and forwards it to content servers. URL rewrite rules with HTTP…
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iis 7.5 - WFF and ARR farm management

We have two test web farms (IIS 7.5). The Florida web farm has two ARR servers and two content servers. The ARR servers have WFF and NLB installed. The ARR setup uses a shared config located on a file share. The content servers do not have WFF…
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Building a server farm - Should I use cheap or expensive hardware?

I'm looking to build a server farm for a web business, I will need front end webservice servers and a common NAS file server backend. Some companies choose to buy the fastest most reliable hardware which costs a premium. Other companies choose to…
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Use single IP address for farm of servers

I am building an app where I have XX number of customers who can run on a single instance. The application scales out by adding more nodes (thus supporting XX more customers). I want a way to use a single IP address so I can have customers setup…
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Understanding down-sides of network load balancing with two computers vs traditional three-way load balancing

We have one site on IIS build in ASP.NET with DNN. Currently we try to configure network load balancing for two servers. The service hosting provider told us this would be enough, but we seem to have hit a brick wall: network load balancing only…
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web farm framework 2.0 - can I use WFF 2.0 with a hardware load balancer?

I have a web farm consisting of 2 web servers running Windows Server 2008 and IIS 7, load balanced between a hardware load balanacer. I'm reading about WFF 2.0 and I don't know if it's possible to use it with a hardware load balancer. If so, how do…
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Web Farms in Windows Server 2016 IIS with Scale-Out File Servers (SOFS)?

It's 2017 and I'm looking for some "best practices" guidance with IIS Web Farms across multiple VM servers. Pre-Server 2016 recommendations like Distributed File System-Replication (DFS-R) Application Request Routing (ARR) and Network Load…
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Web application design in case of several sub-applications

I'm currently in an early design stage for a large scale web application which will definitely be hosted on a large farm of web servers. Now, I'm trying to decide whether I want the whole site to be a www.site.com and place sub-apps in folders, like…
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