After a recent hardware catastrophe, my company has wisely elected to go from a single server environment to a load-balanced, mutli-server environment for the sake of redundancy and smooth performance. (Funny how disaster prevention seems to become a high priority only after disaster occurs...:> ) However, this will be the first time I've worked with CF in a multi-server environment, and I'm not sure what sort of issues have to be taken into consideration for such a change. Our main site is large, complex, and uses a lot of session variables. I'm not looking for anyone to do the research for me, but the resources I've searched (O'Reilly CF book, online documentation, various forums) seem mostly silent on the subject so far. Could anyone be kind enough to point me in the right direction?
For example, I'm concerned about such things as if you have a CF Application Server running on box A and another on box B, isn't there a danger of session variables getting lost if the load balancer suddenly decides to switch a visitor from box A to box B in mid-session? And for scheduled tasks, you really can only have them set up on one box or the other, otherwise they'd always shoot off twice, correct? Thanks, Christophe Maso ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Silver Sponsor - RUWebby http://www.ruwebby.com Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:10:5074 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/10 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:10 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.10 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
