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How do you manage large web farms? [closed]

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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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,...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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How can I as a developer help system administrators improve webfarm deployments and stability of a web application?

Problem: Deploying, and managing this site has become a nightmare. Deployment, going from development to QA, and pre production, takes a couple of days. We have lots of errors, and it involves a ...
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Why does Web Farm Framework keep marking my WFE's as Unhealthy?

Every few hours, Web Farm Framework takes my farm down with a 502 error and the 2 WFE's in the farm are marked as Unhealthy. I have no Validation URL set up in Health Monitoring, and everything is ...
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Microsoft Web Farm just porked IIS

I installed web farm framework 2.1 from web platform installer. Just fooling around on our dev machine I set up a server farm. added the name, set it up to provision with a username. added a server, ...
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ARR servers in the Load Balancing pool automatically go from unavailable to available

I have 3 IIS web servers in an ARR web farm. When we do rolling releases, we take one server offline as a backup server and move it into an "Unavailable State" I have noticed that with ARR, servers ...
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Issue provisioning IIS 7.5 server using Web Farm Framework 2

We have WFF 2.5 installed, and have used it to successfully configure a farm and provision a secondary server in our test environment. Our environment (controller, primary, secondary servers) is ...
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Microsoft Web Farm Framework failing due to lack of hard drive space

I have Microsoft Web Farm Framework setup in a production environment and it seems to work well (better than keeping the servers in sync manually) except that it is causing an excessive number of log ...
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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 ...
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IIS Web Farm Framework servers are automatically set to "unavailable" even when they are healthy... And they never return to the available state!

I have 2 web farm configurations, one with 2 member servers and one with 3 member servers. I have health monitoring set up on both farms and the monitoring tool reports all servers as being healthy. ...
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Web Farm Framework on Windows Server 2012

I'm having trouble installing the Web Farm Framework (2.0) in Windows Server 2012. Has it been integrated in with IIS8 or another feature like AAR? I've looked in the Web Platform Installer and it is ...
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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) ...
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IIS 7.5 Web Server Farm with separate domain accounts

We have 4 servers running Server 2008 R2 x64 with IIS 7.5 and they're linked together with a Web Server Farm. Content is being distributed to each server correctly and also websites so when it comes ...
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IIS server farm with ARR: Why does HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR have a port number?

I've got a server farm set up in IIS 8.5. When I inspect the HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR header in my application code, it gives me the correct IP address but it contains a colon and a port number. E.g. ...
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How do I direct user to the correct servers based on geography?

If I have 3 servers for my website, how would I direct users geographicaly to the right place? The main server is in Australia, but content is synced to a US server. As someone in the uk my ping ...
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IIS server farm with multiple websites

I'm trying to set up an iis server farm with multiple websites. I have a ControlServer that should redirect requests and manage load balancing for two similar iis web servers. These web servers ...
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Microsoft Application Request Routing with Windows Authentication

I'm running into a problem trying to get Windows Authentication working in an environment that uses Microsoft Application Request Routing and was hoping someone might be able to help. The problem I'm ...
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Invalid Encryption Keys Password when enabling shared Configuration to Azure file share in iis

I want to set up to Azure VM web servers as a farm with shared configuration and content being stored in an Azuure File share. I have been following this tutorial : http://officeline.gr/2017/05/17/...
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single point of failure in IIS Web Farm Framework setting?

ASP.NET WEB API Windows Server 2008 R2/IIS 7.5/Web Farm Framework 2.5 I am planning to deploy application across 4 web servers. Should i use shared content/configuration using DFS among web servers ...
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Provisioning a secondary server using Web Farm Framework 2

We have 3 new instances (all Windows 2008 R2 Datacenter) running on EC2, one to run as a controller for the web farm, and the other two as web servers (all running IIS 7.5). Installed WFF via Web ...
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Setting up the web farm framework 2.1 with an existing running windows server 2008 R2

I have a windows server 2008 R2 running IIS 7.5. I also consider getting another dedicated windows server 2008 R2 to set up a web farm framework 2.1. Which steps do I need to follow? 2 servers are ...
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When is applicationHost.config read from the filesystem?

We're thinking of updating our server farms to use Shared Configuration, and we're wondering about the performance penalty for doing so. We're wondering when the applicationHost.config file is read ...
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Using Web Farm Framework workflows to fire custom command automatically

I'm using Microsoft's Web Farm Framework, and I'm trying to use the Workflow features of version 2.0 to fire a custom command when 'Remove from Load Balancing' is selected. Based on the linked ...
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Web Farm Framework - Adding servers are offline

My problem is that im trying to setup a server farm but the nodes all come up as offline. I dont get a connection error saying that the servername is wrong, but get "offline" after it "test connection"...
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Web Farm Framework - Limited deployment to specific servers

Is it possible when deploying apps using the IIS web farm framework to limit the number of servers the site is deployed on? The use case I am specific looking at is with a multi-tenant load balanced ...
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IIS 7.5 and ARR - Server.MapPath showing path on ARR Server not Content Server

I am currently building a Web Farm using ARR and the Web Farm Framework. We have two ARR servers that are part of their own NLB cluster with the Web Farm containing two identical content servers. I'...
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set iis web farm with WFF and ARR

I use iis7 , wff, arr to setup a web farm. On one web farm controller, the "ready for load balancing" of every content server turn yes almost immediately. I use another machine to be the web farm ...
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Asp.Net web farm IIS on EC2 and ELBs

I'm a developer now developing my startup. I really don't know much about IIS setup. I will host my startup on Amazon EC2. And I want to know how can I scale my application if my traffic increase. I ...
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IIS7 Web Farm Framework 2.0 Basic Setup Questions On Load Balancing

Pardon the basic questions but I can't seem to find any basic answers. I'm in the process of standing up a standard server farm using Web Farm Framework 2.0. I set up a controller server and a ...
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IIS7.5 Application Request Routing for multiple sites on one WebFarm

I am running some test scenarios with setting up a server farm using Windows 2008R2, IIS7.5, WebFarm Framework and Application Request Routing. I have three servers: WebFarm1 Controller 192....
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Are my SharePoint web front ends working properly? (load balancing)

I have SharePoint running on a server farm configured with 1 app server, 2 WFE's and 1 DB server. I have 4 applications in SharePoint which are (seemingly) working properly. What is strange, however,...
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Application Request Routing giving 502.3 Bad Gateway or Proxy error

I have just set up a web farm with Application Request Routing on IIS 8.5, with Load Balance connecting to two servers. The static page HelloWorld.html and the first login page looks fine. However ...
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when do we need a web farm setup?

I am current on windows server 2008 R2 and using IIS 7.5. There 15+ apps running under the iis. My question is that : how can we determine when we need a web farm setup? What statistics do we need to ...
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Windows Server 2008 Web vs Standard

Please tell me what choice will be best between Windows Server 2008 R2 Web edition and Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard edition for NoSQLDatabase/BackendComputing scaling farm? I am pretty sure that ...
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ARR Web Farm Health Test sends hundreds of requests

I have an IIS ARR/Web Farm using the Health Test feature (healthcheck). The settings on the test are to check the given url every 30 seconds. It does check every 30 seconds, but it sends hundreds of ...
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Load Balanced SFTP Server

we have 2 Load Balanced web servers on Azure and I am trying to set up a load balanced SFTP connection for my client. I have tried doing this using a load balanced end-point on azure for SFTP but the ...
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D-I-Y VPS Hosting for multiple domains (3) on a single static IP [closed]

and thanks for your input. What I want to do: I want to host some applications Web and email, for example, for myself and two clients on one static IP Address, primarily to learn, and possibly to ...
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small IIS web farm-create an Active Directory domain or no?

We have a smallish web farm of < 5 Windows 2008 servers. Some do data, most do IIS hosting. Is it a good/bad idea to set up a domain controller and put all in the same "production" domain? We ...
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Do I have to set web farm for multiple web sites in the same IIS server?

I have multiple web sites hosted in the same IIS 8.5. The web sites names are same but different ports or http/https. For example, http://www.mydemosite.com (using default port 80) https://www....
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