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Deploying Clusters

ColdFusion Server 4.0 offers native support for deploying applications in a clustered environment. A typical cluster deployment might use three to ten production servers to offer greater performance and availability for large scale e-commerce or enterprise applications.

When ColdFusion is deployed in a clustered environment end user requests are automatically distributed to the optimal server in the cluster based on load. If any server in the cluster fails, another server will automatically take over the IP address of the failed server, handling any new inbound requests and giving end-users high-availability.

Unlike other cluster technology, a ColdFusion cluster has no single point of failure. Any machine in the cluster can handle load balancing and fail over. Also, ColdFusion uses smart clusters, so every machine in the cluster is aware of the load being placed on the other ColdFusion Servers. As a result, load balancing is optimized to deliver the very best performance at the lowest cost. Finally, extending a ColdFusion cluster is as simple as adding a new server, and there is no limit to the number of servers a cluster will support.


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