Learn Windows IIS in a Month of Lunches

14.2. Creating a web farm with ARR

I said you’d build a load balance with ARR in its simplest form. That doesn’t mean that the load balance you build here won’t be useful for real production—in fact, quite the opposite. In this chapter I don’t focus on the many additional features ARR includes, such as automated provisioning, the Web Farm Framework, and multiple web farms. We’ll save those for later. In this section your focus is on how easy ARR makes it to build a load balance.

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As in chapter 13, the web servers hosting the websites should have IIS installed and a test page that displays the host name of the server in place. Again, I prefer to put a web page in the default website for testing, such as http://hostname/NLB.htm ...