> On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 01:47:27PM -0400, Dave Wreski wrote:
> > Yes, I'm actually suprised to see M$ using round-robin for their boxes.
> > You'd think they'd use something like Cisco's Local Director provide real
> > load balancing and failover...
>
> That wont work for locally distributed server farms, since the redirector
> box is a single point of failure. Using round-robin to multiple local
> redirectors is better for distributing the load over differen tproviders.
Well, yes, that's true. But with M$ reporting 6 web servers, chances are
they aren't using local directors at all. I should have completed my
statement by saying that having local direcdtors in each of two or more
data centers is the best approach. I guess it's possible that microsoft
has three local directors in each of two data centers for redundancy is
possible...
Dave
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