Gah, when is the search coming back?
I have a 2003 standard server with IIS and sql server on it, and I want to have a second server as a failover. I do not want to load balance them, because the 2nd server's database is read-only. I'm not worried about maintaining state or anything like that, just simple failover. Beyond that, the server hosts a whole ton of web sites.
I already have file replication running smoothly, and the database replication is as good as it's going to get for right now. All that left is to pull our dying hardware load balancing router and configure IIS to do whatever it does. I have found a fair bit of documentation, but nothing I thought looked like precisely what I need. It seems that all I really need to do is give each server its own ip address that dns doesn't point to and then go into each web site's properties and enter the ip address dns does point to. But is it going to use round robin or some kind of intelligent balancing or what? I really need it to direct all traffic to server 1 and only use server 2 as a backup since the db is read-only.
I could swear I've seen this answered before, but I didn't take notes because we got a hardware balancer, but it is giving us trouble now. And then there's the search, arg.
Thanks in advance.
I have a 2003 standard server with IIS and sql server on it, and I want to have a second server as a failover. I do not want to load balance them, because the 2nd server's database is read-only. I'm not worried about maintaining state or anything like that, just simple failover. Beyond that, the server hosts a whole ton of web sites.
I already have file replication running smoothly, and the database replication is as good as it's going to get for right now. All that left is to pull our dying hardware load balancing router and configure IIS to do whatever it does. I have found a fair bit of documentation, but nothing I thought looked like precisely what I need. It seems that all I really need to do is give each server its own ip address that dns doesn't point to and then go into each web site's properties and enter the ip address dns does point to. But is it going to use round robin or some kind of intelligent balancing or what? I really need it to direct all traffic to server 1 and only use server 2 as a backup since the db is read-only.
I could swear I've seen this answered before, but I didn't take notes because we got a hardware balancer, but it is giving us trouble now. And then there's the search, arg.
Thanks in advance.
