I'm wondering if anybody could give me some tips on a good webfarm
load-balancing solution for an ASP.NET application. Here's the rundown:
we've got 3 identical servers that each have identical content. Currently,
we're using dns round-robin to load-balance traffic across the servers. I
won't go into all of the issues that we've encountered doing it this way,
but there are many. We also have the problem of keeping the content
synchronized across all servers. This is not a big deal with only the 3
servers, but what happens when we have 10 servers?
I'm wondering if anybody has a better all-around solution in mind? We've
looked into using DFS to synchronize content, but that's slightly messy to
setup, especially for things like the machine.config files. Our firewall
also does some very rudimentary load-balancing, but that too is ugly. I know
that Application Center 2000 does all of these things, but is it worth the
$2K (or whatever it costs) per machine? I've also looked into the $30K
F5-BigIP type solutions, but that's a bit out of our budget, and it doesn't
address the content issue as I understand it. Are there any other solutions
that somebody could recommend?
Thanks,
Chris
