webfarm

how to test web farm through software

Is there are any soft which allow simulate web farm. (something like virtual machine with multiple IIS). I'm going to test the my app on cluster and try to find the way which easier then creation of multiple virtual machines. Thanks ...

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 limitations by not synchronizing them. To start the discussion, I'd hazard that using ASP.NET...

Adding machineKey to web.config on web-farm sites

We (out IT partner really) recently changed some DNS for a web farmed site we have so that the two production server have round-robin DNS switching between the two. Prior to this switch we didn't really have problems with WebResource.axd files. Since the switch, when we hit the live public URL, we get an error: CryptographicException...

Possibly really stupid Web Farm Framework question

Hi all My apologies if this is a really stupid question, but I have installed and set up the new Microsoft Web Farm Framework in a UAT environment with a controller machine, a primary, and a secondary server. I have installed one of our in-house applications on to the primary server and it has been successfully provisioned across to th...

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: <sessionState mode="SQLServer" ... > pointing to the same shared DB A machineKey on each server that is consistent between the t...