Multiple Servers - Replicating Web Content

[RichardParry]

Hi,

We are looking to deploy a large web application developed in ASP.NET. It has been developed to run over more than one IIS web server, using a clustered SQL Server for the Session State management, an data store etc.

My main problem is that while I have got this to run over as many servers as I want, load balanced by an F5 Big IP system, I don't know how to replicate the web content between the web servers. The web servers are just running Windows 2003 Web Edition, and at present I am manually copying files between each servers to ensure they are running the correct revision of the web application - too much room for errors though, especially as we're making changes to the application frequently.

Is there something built into Windows, or a 3rd party application that can somehow syncronise one or more folders from a central store - ensuring that all "nodes" are always running exactly the same files?

I dont want to use a central SAN or shared disk array, and dont want to use a Windows Cluster for this, due to the expense.

Any ideas and suggestions would be most appreciated!


Many Thanx, Richard

 

[withanh]

SyncToy? File Replication Service?

 

[58sniper]

Windows DFS unless you can get a copy of Microsoft Content Manager 2002

Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.

http://www.ucblogs.net/blogs/exchange/