Hello Everyone, I am new to the forum, found you when googling about for answers.
Most of the applications we run on our servers are small enough in terms of users for a single server deployment, so that IIS and SQL Server exist on the same box. However, we may have to host an application that will get far more hits than we are used to.
This is what got me looking into Webfarms.
I was originally looking at hard ware based load balancers like Foundry and F5 as I thought thats what is required, but I see a lot of people talking about NLB on here. Our issue is we could have 100k+ users online at the same time.
I dont think IIS is really going to be our problem, the ASP.Net application will utilise a SQL database and I think that will be the bottleneck, however, I need to get my head around what direction we should be researching and hopefully thats where you could maybe steer us in the right direction.
Based on 100k users, should we be looking at NLB or something else? How do you scale out SQL server (Perhaps thats something not for this forum and I fully understand if thats the case)
I also understand about session state and how this needs to be handled, but if someone could please be kind enough to start us off in the right direction, I would be most grateful.
Andy