Questions tagged [web-farm]

Collection of web servers or services deployed behind a load balancer. Also called a server cluster.

Collection of web servers or services deployed behind a load balancer. Also called a server cluster.

For more explanation see the links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_farm

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/host-and-deploy/web-farm?view=aspnetcore-6.0

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Synchronizing External Configuration Between IIS Servers in a Web Farm

I have been struggling with the best way to make sure that the certain XML configuration files stay synchronized between multiple servers in a Web Farm. I am not necessarily concerned about the Web.Config, as much as I am concerned about some of…
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A/B testing on IIS 7

I'm interested in setting up an A/B testing environment using IIS7 and a web farm. But I faced problems with Microsoft's Application Request Routing (ARR) solution. Could somebody share an idea on how to set it up using web farm toolkit? I need to…
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How to share the Asp.Net Application Variables among severs in a Web Farm environment

We can have a persistence storage for Session Variables using SessionStateMode as SQLServer. Why don't we need that flexibility for Application Variables? Is it because their size should be very less (common for all users)? If we are thinking of a…
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Invalidating and refreshing cache on deployment to multiple servers

I am using Couchbase cache. There is one couchbase server. I have multiple servers to host the app and follow a slight modification of the blue green deployment strategy to deploy app on all the servers. Deployment strategy - Consider first 50%…
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Application Request Routing giving 502.3 error as bad gateway or proxy server

I have just set up a web farm with Application Request Routing on IIS 8.5, with Load Balance connecting to two servers. The static page HelloWorld.html and the first login page looks fine. However when the submit button is hit, whenever a code…
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WCF Service configuration in Web Farm and Load Balancing envrionment

I want to configure ASP.NET Website Project using WCF Service[NetTcp] (both in c#) for web-farm (for website) and NLB Load balancing (for service). I would like to configure following options for same. NetTcpBinding.maxConcurrentCalls,…
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Login issues on shared SQLServer session state of web-farm

Per a question I posted yesterday, our website's DNS structure has changed to round-robin DNS which literally swaps back and and forth between two production servers. Our web.config for both prod servers has:
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Potential problems with using ASP.NET App cache on mirror?

I've 2 servers mirror with a load balancer. I'd like to know the pros and cons of sticking with app cache versus going with something like memcache? I'm very interested in various solutions and especially the types of errors that I could get or…
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Are there any patterns for monitoring log4net exception logs from across a cluster of web servers?

Are there any patterns or practices for monitoring log4net exception logs across a cluster of web servers. I have considered several options including the following: A central database A log file retrieval system A service based loggin…
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How to send data to another page except query string in Web-Farm

I have a webFarm application and an HTML image control as follows I am setting scr of this image from code behind as follows- string mapId = "1234"; // mapId can vary logo.Src =…
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ASP.NET and distributed caching in more than one web server

I need distributed cache to be used in more than one web server. I've tried a file based cache dependency, but it doesn't work in UNC path. I think .NET can not monitor the files on the UNC path. I know that Microsoft has presented a new feature in…
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Event log automation/tools for big web farm

A good friend of mine works for a large asp.net shop, with a web farm with many web servers (dozens). The application logs exceptions and messages to the event log on each box (not to a centralized location). Does anyone know of a convenient way to…
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which database should I use?

I am planning to build a web application and android app, which will manage huge numbers of notification (push notification), and can work in slow internet connection too. I need to send and get instant notifications. Number of users can be…
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How to configure web farm in ASP.NET?

What changes are required in web.config file to configure Web Farm ?
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Any important things to keep in mind while configuring log4net in web farm asp.net applications

We are implementing a brand new web site application. For logging we have opted for log4net dll approach. We are going to launch the websites in web farm framework. So we are using 4 servers for launching our websites, via a load balancer. Is there…
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