Re: Server Extensions in a cluster

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From: Jim Buyens (news_at_interlacken.com)
Date: 06/03/04 

Date: 3 Jun 2004 15:58:31 -0700

Try this link:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconsessionstate.asp

Basically, if you're load-balancing across several independent
servers, you can have a Web request on one physical server pick up
Session info established previously on a different server. There are
two ways to do this:

o You run a single State Server that maintains (in memory) all the
session
   information for all the Web servers.
o You designate a MS SQL Server to retain all the Session info. Note
that
   in this case, session info can even survive an unexpected power
loss.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
Author of:
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"M.Siler" <John.Doe@NoSpam.com> wrote in message news:<Og#CMOZSEHA.2412@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl>...
> Jim, I agree with you 100% that large enterprises don't user FrontPage
> Server Extensions, nor do we. We have our Intranet setup using FPSE and it's
> running on our Exchange Cluster. IIS isn't very demanding for our needs. The
> clustering was more for our Exchange Servers, File Servers & SQL Servers.
> It's just a little dishearten to have configured everything for failover and
> spent all that money only to findout that something simple like FPSE won't
> work. It worked on our old non-clustered server, but not the new high
> availability solution. Sorry, but that just through me for a loop this
> morning... I'm better now. ;-)
>
> Jim, one follow up question... you said that session states can be
> maintained via .NET what would I look up to investigate this further?
>
> "Jim Buyens" <news@interlacken.com> wrote in message
> news:17e9001c4498e$348cc180$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> > Well, I hear you, but applications that justify $200,000
> > worth of clustering usually require more specialized
> > results than you can get with built-in FrontPage
> > functions. For example, you don't see CNN, or Google, or
> > Amazon.com using the Save Results component.
> >
> > FWIW, the more common approach for Web farms is to cluster
> > your database server, and then run multiple independent
> > Web servers with content replication and a load balancing
> > solution (which could be a hardware box, Microsoft Network
> > Load Balancing, or various other products). If you need to
> > maintain session state, .NET has ways of doing that.
> >
> > Jim Buyens
> > Microsoft FrontPage MVP
> > http://www.interlacken.com
> > Author of:
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> > || Microsoft FrontPage Version 2002 Inside Out
> > || Faster Smarter Beginning Programming
> > || (All from Microsoft Press)
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