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Load balancing with websites using sessions

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ionoxx

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Alright.... I'm planning on launching a website that must run on 2 web servers (Windows 2003 Web Edition) and a DB server. Now, I need to have load balancing between the two web servers.

- Round robin DNS is out of the question... its just the best way. Even though, once you connect to the website you stay on the same server.

- Windows Network Load Balancing cannot be used because session data will not be passed over from one server to the other (or so i think).

- Windows Cluster service is not available on Web edition and Enterprise edition is too costly. (Standard edition is limited to 2 servers so... no)

What i'm thinking is putting a linux box or two in front. But Layer 4 Load balancing won't do it... session data will not be passed on.

Any suggestions???
 
This is really more of a question of what is your backend implementation? ASP.NET supports SQL for session persistance, and I know there are a number of third party tools that will do session transfer from memory 'on demand'...
 
It's actually an ASP website. But there are parts of the administration websites that are PHP. They all work with MySQL DBs.
 
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