Creating A Web farm For Your DotNetNuke Website
With a little luck and a lot of hard work there will come a time when your website’s popularity outgrows the capabilities of a single server. It’s time then to consider moving to a server-cluster also called web farm where you can host your website over multiple servers, balancing and shifting the load all across them so that your visitors continue getting the fast website experience that they’re used to.
Server clustering is now a part of Windows Server and IIS 7, so you can easily set up your web farm and get a dramatic boost in your website’s performance by setting up shared configuration for your website with 2 or more servers.
By using a server farm you can also avoid buying newer and costlier hardware, putting older servers to work to share the load at a lower cost. Additionally a web farm also enhances the security by creating redundancy which will keep the website online and functioning even if one of the server fails.
In this article we will learn how to set up your web server farm through IIS 7 Shared configuration feature for your DotNetNuke website.