Comments on: Web Farm Framework 2.0 overview

By: Ners

Ners — Thu, 03 May 2012 20:55:36 +0000

Nice post, thanks for the details. It seems like no one has answered paracetamol’s second question about making controller server high-availability. Seems like the controller server is the weakest link in this chain – if a primary server goes down, you can have many other picking up the slack, but if controller goes down – nothing will work.

Can you create a new controller server and have it control an existing web farm with all existing configuration details, if the main controller goes down? Also, how can we make sure that controller works in a high-availability mode? Seems like there is no redundancy for controller server.

By: Josh Shand

Josh Shand — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 01:46:05 +0000

Hey,

As I am yet to find the answer on Google, my question to you is what route does the provisioning take whilst a) provisioning the platform b) provisioning an application.
I am trying to draw a detailed design for our implementation but I can’t figure out if the content from the primary is replicated THROUGH the controller to each secondary or if it goes from the primary directly to each of the secondary boxes and is just initiated by the controller.

Thanks

By: joe

joe — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 14:41:24 +0000

i am new to this and just setup the controller,primary and secondary servers what server do I add the website and ip is it the controller or primary, does all websites and ips go on controller and then replicate to primary,secondary servers

By: Hugo

Hugo — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 13:54:44 +0000

I have a question.
I am about to create a web service where approximately 100 000 units will connect to. And by units I mean we’re still building these units.

These units will connect to my service via a GPRS (TCP/IP) connection, and I will read data from the port on the socket from these units.

So … how does the web farm (or ARR) route these connections. Is it on a per TCP/IP client connection … ?

By: James

James — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:49:28 +0000

Which roles can you install on the same server to have a highly available solution? We have 2 data centres of which one is used as a DR site all on the same subnet. Please can you provide me some advice

By: ruslany

ruslany — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 07:49:19 +0000

Hi Dan,

Web Farm Framework 2.0 is the tool for provisioning and management of the web servers in a web farm. It can be used to install all kinds of software on the web servers in the web farm, for example, it can install IIS and all its modules. WebDeploy is primary used to deploy and synchronize web applications and web content on web servers.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 04:03:41 +0000

Hi Ruslany,

What’s the difference between Web Deploy and Web Farm Framework 2.0 beta and when would someone use one over the other. Thanks.

By: ruslany

ruslany — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 06:42:37 +0000

Hi Mohsen, I would suggest that you use Web Platform Installer to setup your primary server. It will install all the required components for running .net framework based web sites.

By: Mohsen Almassud

Mohsen Almassud — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 18:48:57 +0000

I am trying to get this setup to work but so far no luck. I think the part that I am missing is in setting up the primary server, because I don’t know what components to install just for normaly web sites with .net framwork.

can you please provide me a list of common components that I need to install to get this setup work?

Thanks

By: Gurpreet

Gurpreet — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:59:21 +0000

It cannot sync custom tools. It can only sync products which are supported in Web PI. You can only sync content from primary server. So if user uploads image on to the secondary server, we cannot sync that to all the servers.

Did you think about sharing content between all the servers?