Managing Remote Content
Typically, the files that comprise a Web application are stored on the IIS server’s local file system. Though this certainly makes sense when you are running a small set of Web applications, in a large or complex environment—such as a hosting company running Web farms with thousands of Web sites across many servers or a complex application consisting of many small applications that sit on different servers managed by various parties—it is almost impossible to host the application contents locally.
In some scenarios, you might need more than a single Web server to deliver a high-volume traffic Web application. Though it is definitely possible to copy the same set of contents to many Web servers serving the same application, ...
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