Where to start

[Bell1991]

I have a lot of questions and not necessarily looking for answers - but a place to start.

We currently are running WIndows 2000 Server. We have two servers a web server and a database server. Both servers eventually need to be replicated - which we have the servers in place - just not the replication. We are planning on using XoSoft Replication for the datababase and i am not sure for the webservers. The only data we will need replicated on the webservers are documents - any suggestions?

We are planning on setting up a domain - so we can potentially have 'High available' servers. I somewhat know how to set this up for the database servers (if one server goes down - then the other picks up) - but this is built into the XoSoft software. Are there any solutions for the webservers?

I am not sure if this is the right board to post this on - but i have no idea where to start looking for webserver solutions.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Jpoandl]

For the web servers, you may consider using Windows 2000 built-in cluster service. This is a very common; highly supported, method of achiving high availability for web servers.

Here is some information that talks about the differences between high availability and fault tolerance (as well as documentation on how to setup web clusters):

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/planning/server/clustersteps.asp

Joseph L. Poandl
MCSE 2003

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[Jpoandl]

I forgot to mention that Windows clustering can also solve your database replication. Actually, to explain further, clustering isn't really replicating the data. Instead, its allowing multiple computers the ability to point to one data source.

You can see some detail on how clustering helps by looking here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/technologies/clustering/

or here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/technologies/clustering/

Clustering gives you high availability. It does not provide true fault tolerance. So, you need to be clear on what type of solution you are looking for.

-later

Joseph L. Poandl
MCSE 2003

If your company is in need of experts to examine technical problems/solutions, please check out

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(Sales@njcomputernetworks.com)