Learn Windows IIS in a Month of Lunches

16.3. Sharing content from a single location

The previous two sections demonstrated how to share and update locally stored content between web servers in a web farm. Whether you choose to manually do that with PowerShell and script or have the local content updated continuously using Microsoft DFS, you’ll greatly reduce mistakes and management time spent updating content.

Another approach to sharing content with web servers in a farm is to centralize, or store your content in one location, and then have the websites access that content across the network. Here are some of the advantages to this approach over locally-stored content:

• Content is stored in one location making updates easy.
• You can easily store content for hundreds of websites, ...