Availability
One of the reasons that you provide a Web Service is so that other applications can use it. If the Web Service has problems maintaining availability due to server failure, application crashes, network outages, or anything else, the usefulness of the Web Service will be greatly reduced. Your users want to be able to depend on the service being available when they need it. So, what are some of the things you can do to make the Web Service more available?
Clustered servers— Protect against power outages and server failure.
Multiple deployment locations— Allows the same Web Service to be accessed from multiple locations. This approach will also be discussed within the context of increasing performance.
Reporting— By providing reporting ...
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