Load Balanced support of aspg

samuel,

as you know we run a load balanced version of aspg. anybody running aspg on 2 or more front ends will have to do many of the same mods we made to allow for proper user counts and image replication across 2 or more servers. My suggestion is to provide multiple front end load balanced integration for ASP Playground.

Many users run multiple front ends for speed, scalability or just for safety by redundancy. This support would be extremely helpful to all the users who utilize mutliple front ends or for those considering aspg but are concerned about the configuration and code changes needed to support a load balanced environment.

thanks

marc

your load balancer should be able to handle most of the backgroud works if it supports "session affinity".

It probably does support it but it does not address things like replicating images across several servers. A simple FTP or http post routine could be written to handle writing across front end load balanced servers. Also dealing with online users there has to be some coding done to track properly.

file replication can be done transparently. You just need the File Replication Service of Windows or something similar. Maximum ASP's LB server can do this with no coding. It really depends on what equipment you have to set up your web farm.

For more info on how to set up DFS, refer to this KB: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;311398

If your web farm can do file replication and sticky session, the software works on a web farm. It is just the counting of "Guests" can be off.

EDIT: counting for guests is no longer an issue beginning version 2.3

Can you just publish as mod not the original code if you don't want to support in all or do you going to add this feature in next revisions.

There is a already working forum supporting this feature you can just make some txt's and ready to go.

People could like to see these kind of support because it's not that high cost any more if it's a mission critical project.

Another key element would be international sites would like this cause of able to serve in every continent. From my knowledge such as motherboard companies or other technology firms could is use it very easily.

in our latest release, we support session state management using the database, so you won't have to turn on the session affinity feature in your load balancer anymore.

thanks samuel!