Hi Mariette,

I read through it and it looks great.  Thanks for the plug. :)

One thing to note though.  If you setup both application pools to run web gardens then you could get the same pseudo load balancing by just creating a web garden in one app pool and not doing all the configuration for an extra IIS website.

The reason for the extra IIS website was so you could have one App pool with a web garden that most of the traffic goes to, and the other was for administration that does not use a web garden so that people who are updating the site won't see the sporadic behavior mentioned earlier.

Cathal,

I noticed that after two running with the config as I described in my blog the logging provider stopped working. I changed web.config and set the webfarm setting to true. BTW, I also got some errors related to the State Server and that makes me think it is better to SQL as a state server though I read somewhere that is a lot slower then ASP.NET State Server.