Building a Highly Available and Scalable Web Farms


Updated: Wednesday, 13 Sep 2006, 12:51 PM
IIS Version: 5
Target Audience: IT Professionals


This article discusses how to set up a highly available and scalable Web farm with Network Load Balancing (NLB), using the load-balancing solution implemented by Duwamish Online as an example. Three methods of load balancing are highlighted: Round Robin Domain Name System (RRDNS), load-balancing switches, and Microsoft Windows 2000 NLB.