Advice needed on hosting multiple sites and applications within an II6 web farm

Hi,



I have been reading the posts as I am investigating using of HW Load
balancing for our user access/requests to a new Web farm that we are
looking to implement which will host Sharepoint / SQL, Citrix Web
interfaces and other applications etc,



I would like to know if it what are the limits of hosting multiple
sites and applications within a Web farm which uses 3 IIS 6 servers
with a HW load balancer.

I understand that IIS7 makes this easier to implement but the business
decision is to hold off from moving to IIS7.



Thanks

M

David
Sat Sep 22 00:08:55 PDT 2007

On Sep 21, 11:57 pm, murras68 <murra...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been reading the posts as I am investigating using of HW Load
> balancing for our user access/requests to a new Web farm that we are
> looking to implement which will host Sharepoint / SQL, Citrix Web
> interfaces and other applications etc,
>
> I would like to know if it what are the limits of hosting multiple
> sites and applications within a Web farm which uses 3 IIS 6 servers
> with a HW load balancer.
>
> I understand that IIS7 makes this easier to implement but the business
> decision is to hold off from moving to IIS7.
>
> Thanks
>
> M


IIS6 should be just sufficient -- what limits are you concerned about,
and why do you think those limits exist in IIS6.

And can you clarify why you think your task is easier on IIS7 -- you
have given insufficient information for anyone to properly comment on
your question -- so I'm not certain if you are genuinely looking for
advice or just looking for people to agree with your statements.

My personal inclination is that you should implement on IIS6 unless
you can prove IIS7 is beneficial.


//David
http://w3-4u.blogspot.com
http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
//

Kristofer
Sat Sep 22 00:09:25 PDT 2007

What kind of limits are you looking for? The question is pretty much
impossible to answer since it depends on server hardware, the web
applications and the load. There are no hard coded limits that will
prevent you to host NN websites.


--
Regards,
Kristofer Gafvert
http://www.gafvert.info/iis/ - IIS Related Info


murras68 wrote:

>Hi,
>
>
>
>I have been reading the posts as I am investigating using of HW Load
>balancing for our user access/requests to a new Web farm that we are
>looking to implement which will host Sharepoint / SQL, Citrix Web
>interfaces and other applications etc,
>
>
>
>I would like to know if it what are the limits of hosting multiple
>sites and applications within a Web farm which uses 3 IIS 6 servers
>with a HW load balancer.
>
>I understand that IIS7 makes this easier to implement but the business
>decision is to hold off from moving to IIS7.
>
>
>
>Thanks
>
>M

Steve
Sun Sep 23 13:15:39 PDT 2007

The biggie for IIS7 is shared configuration. If you can hold off or go
ahead and implement on IIS7 for this one feature, you'll be light years
ahead. If not, IIS6 definitely will fit your needs. I would search for IIS
/ Load-balancing / clustering IIS for key words when searching TechNET or
Google.

--

Steve Schofield
Windows Server MVP - IIS
http://weblogs.asp.net/steveschofield


"murras68" <murras68@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
>
>
> I have been reading the posts as I am investigating using of HW Load
> balancing for our user access/requests to a new Web farm that we are
> looking to implement which will host Sharepoint / SQL, Citrix Web
> interfaces and other applications etc,
>
>
>
> I would like to know if it what are the limits of hosting multiple
> sites and applications within a Web farm which uses 3 IIS 6 servers
> with a HW load balancer.
>
> I understand that IIS7 makes this easier to implement but the business
> decision is to hold off from moving to IIS7.
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
> M
>