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1/24/2008 12:08 PM
 
martin taylor

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HI All,

Newbie question... apologies up front.

If a person wants to run a 'web farm' to enhance the web experience for its users, is it as simple as having two servers (win Server2003) both running IIS/Dotnetnuke - with identical portal setup and skins (same look and feel to user logging on) - with both servers pointing to a 3rd server running the SQL2005 database?

I anticipate that there is another piece that would somehow 'share' users coming in between the two servers.. but my question is - is it as simple as this, or are there other compents such as MS Cluster server (or other tools) necessary?

High level thoughts would be appreciate

Cheers

Brit

 
 
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1/24/2008 2:39 PM
 
martin taylor

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Did some readin this morning, and found a great article that explained Network Load balancing Service on a Windows 2003 server.

So my further question would be, is there any issue in having two identicle 'portals' running on two servers - accessing the same database on a third server?

Would new users registering, existing users accessing and changing content all be handled seemlessly with no issues at the SQL database?

Madbrit

 

 
 
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1/25/2008 9:19 AM
 
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make sure, buth servers are using same file share as well to store their cache data and portal files. Check out the Web Farm Guide in Resources > Documentation menu item above.

Cheers from Germany,
Sebastian Leupold

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1/25/2008 10:16 AM
 
martin taylor

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Hi Sebastian,

Great, thanks for the reply.  Under resources/Documentation is the on-lin help.

Have already looked there under most of the headings I thought this might be covered... including Host, but didnt see anything specific on web farms - which would be fantastic!

Do you have the sub menu item this falls under?

Cheers

Brit

 

 

 
 
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1/28/2008 4:03 PM
 
kparchinski

Joined: 9/12/2007
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Hi guys,

I have been asked by my client to implement a load balanced solution to their DNN installation utilizing 2+ web servers and one SQL Server 2005 server, which may or may not be clustered.  They will be using hardware load balancers to redirect to the appropriate web server.  Are there any best practices defined for what does and does not work when configuring load balancers?  Sticky IP?  Round robin?  Etc.  Thanks in advance.

Ken
 
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