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by pmarsh

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I've got IIS 4.0 running on a box and I want to set-up some redundancy slash a little fault tolerance. I want to set up a duplication of the current site on another box and be able to switch between them as needed. I know I'll have to repoint a few things but that's not my concern. My concern is how to I sync the two machines so the sites are the same. Can this be done via replication? I suppose I could just recreate the site on the second box but that would mean every time I do edits I'llhave to do it on two rather than one. I'm sure there is an easy way to get this done. Any ideas or thoughts would be great.

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by bound4doom

Well your Question is a good one however the Answer Depends on a lot of things.

1. Are you doing fron't page webs and relying on Front Page to develop your site?

If so then well your pretty screwed you have to use the entire export function infront page to reestablish all the front page crap there. Believe it or not if you were to try to restore a Fron't page web from back up, it would not come up properly. I know cause I have had to do this many times before. And then there are things like the front page counter and such that would mess you up too they will reset to 0

2. If you are running ASP and have a good developed site database driven and such, yeah you can just use replication and your done just make sure any server side components are installed on the other server, they need to be actually installed and registered in the registry to function.

3. The Best sollution I can recomend is if you truly wish to do this then Upgrade to 2000 and IIS 5 and make the 2 servers a Server farm. It will balance the load for you automatically and if one server goes down the other handles the whole load until the other comes back up. You can do server Farming with IIS 4 but you got to buy some additional software from 3rd parties

by paul.zocco

One answer is to purchase Site Server 3.0 for both web servers. There is a publishing tool in Site Server that allows you to create a Project for each web site, say on Server1 and replicate it, totally, or in pieces, to Server2. I use it and it works quite well.

-Paul

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