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• 06-07-2009, 9:32 AM

  Cosmopoet Joined on 10-25-2007, 8:44 PM Posts 66

  How to - Best practice - setup for a high volume website - Multiple servers. Reply Contact Hello, I have spent some time reading this part of the forum but not sure as to how to go about what I am about to do. I need to know how or the best practice to setup a website that is going to be hit pretty hard and I have never load balanced a site or set of servers before. So my questions are: 1. Do I use routers and firewalls with  Round Robin DNS with the web site on different web servers? 2. Do I use NLB in server 2008? 3. If so what is the best method to keep the content centrally located at the same time being hosted on different web servers on the same LAN.  This will get me started. Please and thank you Joseph

• 06-07-2009, 4:21 PM

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  Cosmopoet Joined on 10-25-2007, 8:44 PM Posts 66

  Re: How to - Best practice - setup for a high volume website - Multiple servers. Reply Contact Update:   I spent some time on this video to learn how to do this http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/453/configuring-a-web-farm-using-iis-shared-configuration/ great video by the way. If I could get a few questions answered please I think I can do it just fine Here goes:   1.) At location timer 3:30 in the video he describes the caspol security. However he contunues all the way to his website folder. How would this be configured to allow all websites that would be stored in that folder for webfarm hosting? 2.) The file server has two shares "Configuration" and "Content"  what would have been the prereqs on the permissions in these shares? e.g everyone, iisShared, I have all servers in an AD DC so this would be different I suppose. I would need some guidence on what to use there. 3.) At 9:07 in the video he added iisShared to the IUSR group. Was this done on the other machine web1 first? Or being in a DC not matter? 4.) How was the second webserver (web2) able to serve Burton.com without havving a Public IP pointed to it? Network Load Balancing was configured on the first machine but was not shown how to do it. Would that be set first as web1 as the first cluster machine?   Thanks just a few missing pieces to the puzzle and I think I got it :) Joseph

• 10-23-2009, 11:47 PM

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  Cosmopoet Joined on 10-25-2007, 8:44 PM Posts 66

  Re: How to - Best practice - setup for a high volume website - Multiple servers. Reply Contact Hello,   I am wondering if anyone can help me here. Been a while but I can get everything accept the NLB part. Do I set the Public IP on/in both NLB interfaces of the servers? The Public IP on the router cannot be set to two internal IP's NAT-ed in. Example: Public IP 1.2.3.4 NAT to 192.168.1.2 firewall ports opened on the router mapped to this internal IP AKA 1:1 NAT. Now the other server that is in this cluster how is it setup to get the public IP 1.2.3.4 Mapped to 192.168.1.3  Here is something that may help as to why I see the confusion. When the machine he is confiuring is being set to the Dedicated IP in the NLB interface he is adding the IP address of 192.168.1.202 ok that is on the NIC of that machine. He then sets the public IP ( Cluster IP address) fine that is great and straight forward (maybe the rest is too but I am not getting it) here is why. Now that the first machine Web2 is done he adds the second machine Web1. At this point I get my first question... 1. What dedicated IP address did he use because when he clicks on it and it sees the other machine and those NIC's have 192.168.1.106 and 102 Did he add the Cluster IP of 64.xxx.xxx.xxx there too? Also while configuring Web2 he states that the dedicated IP is that of the machine. So... when he is all done you see in the NLB screen: Converged  192.168.1.202 AND 201 but there never was a 201? Where did the 201 come from? Can someone help me out with the network "Flow" part of this please.   Thank you Joseph