Building a Redundant Web Farm

I am working on a Windows Shared Hosting project at the moment, utilising WebsitePanel in a redundant IIS web farm configuration to load balance the application processing as well as make the configs and content redundant.

I have written about it a little so far, but came across Scott Forsyth’s blog yesterday which I wish I had found these videos earlier! They pretty much cover everything I have learnt so far, but also go in to storage replication with DFS (which I was going to use a horrible robocopy script to do) and more details on how everything works.

I will only be posting the videos most useful for me, but you can view the whole series on dotnetslackers.com, or via his blog.

Securing IIS. Thwarting the Hacker (Week 23)

Why You Shouldn’t Use Web Gardens in IIS (Week 24)

How to Setup an Active Directory Domain (Week 26)

DFS-R for Web Server Replication (Week 27)

IIS 7.x Shared Configuration – Advanced Tips and Tricks (Week 29)