DFS Replication for Windows Server 2003 Web Farm?

[comn8u]

I'm trying think of the best way to replicate website files on multiple servers. I've been doing a lot of reading on Windows Server 2003 R2 DFS Replication/Namespace and it looks like it is geared more towards replicating file servers and not so much web servers. Is there differences? Is there better more suitable software available for replication? It seems that DFS would cause a delay in replication. What if I was using a round robin? I couldn't have one server updated and the other not updated.

[TravisO]

Actually DFS will work great if you're network is setup so that both servers are route-able to each other. Here's some decent articles you should read:

http://www.west-wind.com/presentations/loa...Windows2003.asp

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_...ile-System.html

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechn...s/iis6perf.mspx

I use to have a 2 server web farm using load balancing, so the servers couldn't route each other, so I had to use a 3rd server that would serve as the master and then it would execute a RoboCopy script every 5mins and dupe file changes from the 3rd server to both web servers.

Edited January 17, 2007 by travisowens