Rick, I believe the ideal way to do this would be to have X number of IIS server all connecting to a single 'cluster' type (run the web connector, and do not connect to a single cluster member, but to the named customer itself).
Basically split your web into 2 tiers, the physical web tier with no CF installed (this is great for security too btw), and then a tier with all your CF servers inside of it. If you have one IIS box hooked to instance1, and the other to instance 2, and you have a cluster named 'myCluster', the cluster is not actually being used unless you re-ran the web connector and hooked IIS to the myCluster object instead of instance1. I have had the failover work great for me in a CF cluster. Chris -----Original Message----- From: Rick Root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 8:22 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: load balancing / failover I've determined that Coldfusion clusters suck. They're just DUMB. If one instance in a cluster freezes, other people still get referenced to that instance and get no response. CF clustering provides no real "failover" from one instance to another, so it seems. Am I wrong on this? I don't have a setup that warrants having multiple physical servers and a hardware load balancer so I'm wondering if there are any decent software load balancing solutions that will provide more reliability than CF clustering does. Basically I'd like to have two IIS servers each using a separate CF instance, and have a software load balancer distribute the requests to each (maintaining sticky sessions), and if one instance stops responding (due to failure or high load), force requests onto the available instance. Suggestions? -- Rick Root New Brian Vander Ark Album, songs in the music player and cool behind the scenes video at www.myspace.com/brianvanderark ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:305089 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
