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jfitz
Junior Member
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 Posted - 13 December 2002 : 18:33:01
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| Has anyone had any experience with Snitz Forums 2000 in a load balanced environment. We're planning to move some of our web sites to a load balanced hosting configuration (we manage our own equipment), and the forums would likely move as well. Any downside or caveats about doing this that anyone has experienced? |
--Jördan
It's a wasted day if you don't spend at least part of it flying upside down. |
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dayve
Forum Moderator
USA
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Posted - 13 December 2002 : 18:41:16
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| You should not have any problems as long as your server farm is properly configured for load balancing. It should be quite seamless. |
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Gremlin
General Help Moderator
New Zealand
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Posted - 13 December 2002 : 18:48:31
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It won't be entirely seamless
You'll need to make sure the Application Variables are loaded on each server correctly, and you may encouter problems with the admin screens which use a Session Variable |
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dayve
Forum Moderator
USA
5820 Posts |
Posted - 13 December 2002 : 19:15:44
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Originally posted by Gremlin
It won't be entirely seamless
You'll need to make sure the Application Variables are loaded on each server correctly, and you may encouter problems with the admin screens which use a Session Variable
what kind of load balanced environment are we truly speaking of? I work on an NT farm running 5 Citrix Metaframes along with other services and I don't have problems at all with additional apps being installed. As long as the Load Balancing parameters are set up properly, everything should be fine... What application variables are you speaking of Gremlin |
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Gremlin
General Help Moderator
New Zealand
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Posted - 13 December 2002 : 20:39:01
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| The forum Application Variables Dayve, they are local to each server, so you must ensure they are loaded correctly in each server within the Cluster. Session Variables as well, local only to the server within the cluster so anything using them does not scale well in a Windows WLBS Cluster. |
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dayve
Forum Moderator
USA
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Posted - 13 December 2002 : 20:44:34
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oh, I see... I thought you were referring to the actual server variables, not the forum. gotcha... didn't think about that.  |
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jfitz
Junior Member
USA
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Posted - 14 December 2002 : 12:08:35
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| It looks like we'll be using Windows 2000 with its built-in network load balancing. It works fine for some other applications that we have (which are not ASP-based and do not depend on global variables). |
--Jördan
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Gremlin
General Help Moderator
New Zealand
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Posted - 14 December 2002 : 19:38:05
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| Post back once you've tried and let us know how you got on, just make sure you run setup.asp (this will load the Application Variables not setup the Database again) on each one of the web servers within the cluster and things should work fairly smoothly |
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jfitz
Junior Member
USA
345 Posts |
Posted - 15 December 2002 : 13:35:40
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| It will probably be about a week...I'll let you know. |
--Jördan
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BWJM
Junior Member
Canada
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Posted - 16 December 2002 : 12:10:36
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| The database would have to be hosted on an external SQL server in this case, would it not? |
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jfitz
Junior Member
USA
345 Posts |
Posted - 16 December 2002 : 14:22:30
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| The data base is on a separate server, with an off-internet connection to the forum servers. |
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David K
Junior Member
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Posted - 16 December 2002 : 15:45:30
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| actually it could be hosted on a seperate server with an access database as well (as a network share) |
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Gremlin
General Help Moderator
New Zealand
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Posted - 16 December 2002 : 16:09:35
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Originally posted by BWJM
The database would have to be hosted on an external SQL server in this case, would it not?
This would be the case in most corporate environments anyway, though no it doesnt have to be on a separate server. It's quite feasilbe to have it on one of the servers within the cluster, you just need to access it via the Dedicated IP rather than the Cluster IP. |
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