Questions tagged [server-farm]

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IIS zero down time site set up is still randomly sending requests to the server that is set to unhealthy

We have a blue, green site and server farm set up for zero downtime deployment which works fine but we are seeing in the web logs for the site that does the routing that every now and then the wrong server is being sent requests. 2023-02-19 09:50:05…
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MVC Forms Authentication - How do i handle hosting on a server farm?

I am looking for some clarity on this topic. I am looking to host my site with a host that will load balance my site over a farm of servers. Since my MVC site is using Forms Authentication, I assume there will be an issue with each server being able…
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SignalR Core redis backplane - Is two way for scaling?

We'll have a lot of data coming from outside of the signalR core server. So we're analyzing the best option to scale the servers for incoming data and publishing this data to users. In the documentation we see that redis backplane is only used for…
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Jenkins performance with 1000+ nodes - own device farm

Hi i have a question according to Jenkins. I want to create my own device farm with it. For first simply example there will be 5, 6 nodes and i know that Jenkins will work perfectly with them. But what if there will be 1000+ nodes? It is even…
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IIS ARR load balanced config with SSL

here is my setup. I have 4 servers ARR Node1 Node2 Node3 I have set the nodes up to use a shared configuration and have set the ARR box up to have a central certificate store ( followed the docs on msdn ). On the ARR box there is a DefaultWebsite…
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MsTest noob - how to set up testing infrastructure the right way

We are a MSFT shop with a far-reaching MSDN license. After many years of doing things wrong, we finally have to start doing automated testing. My group is the Guinea pigs at this. We need to create what was not there before. We looked at the…
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versioning an sql query

I have a farm of servers, each server is regularly making an identical query to the database. These query results are cached in a shared cache, accessible to all servers. How can I ensure that a newer query does not get overwritten by an older…
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When we should use SignalR self hosted and when we should not?

I am in a stage of using SignalR in my project and i don't understand when to use Self hosted option and when we should not use. As a example if I am willing to host my web application in server farm, There will be separate hosting servers Separate…
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remote svn update on server farm

I wrote an svn hook that triggers upon commit. The goal is to automatically update multiple servers by running svn update on each. So my server topology consists of (all running under Windows 2012): a) SVN_server b) server1,...,N I use PsExec to…
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Adding new server to Farm not firing event receivers

Experts- We have deployed WSP (with features and feature activation event receivers) in farm environment. Event receivers creates timer jobs to perform few changes to all servers in farm. Issue: When new server is added to farm, WSP is getting…
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Windows Services in a web farm (how to prevent concurrency conflicts)

Looking ahead, to when a Web Farm will be created... We have various windows service applications performing various back-ground tasks: sending emails, thumbnailing/processing files etc. In a server farm environment, we could in theory install and…
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Server farm and/or other solutions for running a ruby script fast

I have a ruby script that's going to take about 5 hours to crunch on my specced-out rmbp. Problem: We need it within 2 hours. The code being run is non-threadsafe, and spits out a csv file from a xlsx input. ...I've never used server farms before,…
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How is cache invalidation done across multiple servers?

This is a fairly platform-agnostic question. I know that some platforms allow for shared caching and such, but most of it is kind of just "magic". I'm wondering how they're actually implemented and what are the technical details. So, if I have a…
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SQL Server CLR integration in a server cluster/farm scenario

Is it a good-practice to enable SQL Server CLR integration in a server-cluster scenario? The policy at my organization disallows deploying CLR assemblies on their production servers; I was informed by the DBA's this is because the CLR UDFs runs…
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How does a server farm handle a database?

I have been making some research in the domain of servers for a website I want to launch. I thought of a certain configuration of a server with RAID 10 implemented with a NAS doing the backup which has a RAID 10 configuration as well. This should…
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