Questions tagged [web-farm]
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Do web farms help to reduce latency caused by physical distance?
There are many causes of high latency but I'm only interested with the one caused by physical distance between client and server.
Web/server farms utilize multiple servers coupled with load balancers ...
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Load balancing and failover with SQL 2016 and IIS on AWS
I apologize if this question is too general, but i just wanted a sanity check for a setup I've been planning.
Right now i have an application that runs on an AWS server, with SQL and IIS both ...
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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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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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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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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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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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IIS Web Farm site stuck on starting on other servers - 0x800710D8
We have a win 2012/IIS 8.5 web farm up and running using a shared config. All was working great on the servers and we would create a site on one server and it would go across them all. We run into ...
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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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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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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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IIS using shared configuration could't start after lost power
I have seen this issue when our server farm vms all lost power yesterday and couldn't find a way to stop it from happening.
I have got multiple nodes using shared configuration in a shared folder. ...
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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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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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Is it possible to create an IIS web farm using WFF and ARR using a single server?
I'm developing a web application that will be deployed in a web farm environment on IIS 7.5.
Currently I don't have multiple servers to test my application. Is there a way to create and test a web ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Creating my small farm by virtual machines to learn scalability issues [closed]
I would like to create a fake server farm using virtual machines with Ubuntu server on them. I do not plan to use those as a real farm to host people websites etc.
I recently read about scalability, ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Doess IIS 7.5 server farm need to be on a Domain? 2008 R
We are using Server 2008R2 IIS 7.5 with a SQL database on the backend. At the moment the system is working fine with three of the servers configured in a load balancing farm while communicating data ...
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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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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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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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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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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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How do you share php.ini for a webfarm?
we have a IIS 7.5 webfarm (3 servers ATM) running php. Using web deploy we keep the servers in sync, but this only applies to the files used by the sites and the configuration of the IIS.
Is there 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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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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Microsoft Web Farm 2.0 and URL Rewrite: How to route port 80 traffic to port 591?
I have the Controller and the Primary server on the same computer. I would like to URL Rewrite inbound port 80 traffic bound for the controller to port 591 on the web farm.
What URL Rewrite rule ...
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Microsoft Web Farm 2.0: How to install the Controller on the Primary Server?
I install the Microsoft Web Farm 2.0 on a server, add that server and another server as primary and secondary, and everything is fine for a short time. Then upon sync, it installs the Web Farm Server ...
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Microsoft Web Farm 2.0: how to get it to work with ASP MVC 3 which also has a redirector?
The error I get is:
The virtual path 'null' maps to another application, which is not allowed.
I created an MVC 3 project and posted it as-is. Turn off the "URL Rewrite" and everything works fine. ...
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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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WSS 3.0 setting up backup site
I am in the process of trying to work out a procedure to have a backup site for our WSS 3.0 SP2 Sharepoint site. I have a single physical server in the setup, using MS SQL 2005 (not express), and ...
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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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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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Web Farm Application deployment best practices
We are having a web farm which hosts multiple ASP.Net applications. We typically have 4 servers on the farm.
The dilemma which i am having is in terms of capacity issue of the farm. Lets say i have ...
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Web farm stop working after installing VS2010 on one of the nodes
I have a 2 node web farm for testing (replicating my production environment). Now, after I install VS2010 on one of the nodes (one of the nodes doubles as a build server), it would seem as if the ...
