13.1. Introduction to the load balancing web farm
As a web administrator I have this fear of losing a web server and the websites hosted on it. As soon as a website goes live for production, my stomach turns if I have no protection from failure. A backup isn’t good enough—think how much time it would take to build a new server and restore those websites and configurations. That’s why, as soon as I create a website that the business relies upon, I create a web farm (load balance) to protect it.
A simple web farm for IIS consists of two or more IIS servers, each with an exact copy of the same websites (I discuss other configurations in later chapters). What makes the web farm work is that customers access the web servers using an IP address that ...
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