Running Applications on Multiple Servers

You can run any number of instances of your Iron Speed Designer applications on the same machine (server machine) or on multiple machines.  You can deploy applications built with Iron Speed Designer to as many servers as you wish, providing the scalability needed by most applications.  Many developers deploy applications on “web farms” – groups of web servers used when an application or site has more traffic than a single web server can handle.

Most customers run their applications on the “middle tier” servers in a standard N-tier architecture.  The Microsoft IIS web servers run on a separate third tier servers and the database runs on the first tier server.  Generally, applications running on multiple servers are placed behind a load balancing router or load balancing software to distribute application requests to an available, or least loaded, server.

See Also

Performance Tuning

Improving Database Performance

Improving Application Performance

Improving Machine Performance

Improving Network Performance

View State Storage Options for Improving Performance

Session Management

Windows 2003 Application Performance Suggestions

Running Applications on Multiple Servers

Concurrent Application Users