Brian Maybe this is what you are looking for http://www2.witango.com/downloads/ProfConfigGuide.pdf
Buddy -----Original Message----- From: Brian Humes [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 11:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Load balancing Robert, Thank you very much for the information. You wouldn't happen to have a copy of the Advanced Server Configuration Guide, would you? Does anyone have this? I also appreciate your offer for assistance. I'll see if we have any room in the budget for a consultant. Again, many thanks. Brian Humes Director, Interactive JohnsonRauhoff 269-428-9257 (direct) 269-428-3377 (main) 269-428-3312 (fax) www.johnson-rauhoff.com [email protected] On Oct 20, 2009, at 11:22 AM, Robert Shubert wrote: > Witango does all of this automatically. > > There used to be a document called the Advanced Server Configuration > Guide > (or something to that effect) that covered all of this in detail. I > think it > was published for 5.0, but nothing changed for 5.5 > > In a nutshell: > > Install the second (, third, fourth, etc) server. > > Edit the Witango.ini so that it will accept requests from the web > server and > operates identically to your current server. > > Edit clients.ini on the web server to point to the second server. > > Done. > > The issues with moving to a load balanced setup are, however, not > about the > server installation, rather, the operation of your software can change > dramatically. For example, you must now purge the application cache > on both > servers. Also, domain and application scoped variables will need to be > updated on both servers so they match - Witango does not do this > automatically. Another consideration is that you may now be using the > network to access shared resources from the two servers. This has a > few > ramifications for your configuration. > > Hope that helps. > > You can also get in contact with me off-list. I offer consulting > services > for these types of installations. And just in case you don't want to > worry > about managing your servers anymore, I also offer high-end hosting > services. > > Robert > Tronics > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Humes [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 10:42 AM > To: Witango Talk > Subject: Witango-Talk: Load balancing > > Hi all, > > I have a web server (Windows Server 2003 R2, IIS 6, Witango 5.5 > Standard, MS SQL Server 2005) that is serving a lot of traffic. We > think its time to add a second server. Here's what we'd like to > accomplish: > > 1) When both servers are running, balance the load so each server is > getting roughly half the traffic. > 2) If one server goes down for some reason, automatically shift all > traffic to the good server. > 3) When a user hits one server, they stay on that server until the > session is completed (I think Witango does this automatically?). > > I've gone through the server installation documentation and found > nothing about making this work. I did do some searching through the > archives and found that Witango is (it seems) capable of this, I just > don't know how to do it. > > Could someone please point me in the right direction? Any help would > be greatly, greatly appreciated. Thanks! > > > > Brian Humes > Director, Interactive > JohnsonRauhoff > 269-428-9257 (direct) > 269-428-3377 (main) > 269-428-3312 (fax) > www.johnson-rauhoff.com > [email protected] > > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf > ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf
