Replication and Clustering

Replication and clustering are technologies that enable sites with multiple servers to keep up with the growing demands placed upon them. When multiple computers act as servers for a single site, they can be grouped by clustering software. This grouping allows added features to the server site not possible with a single computer. Fault tolerance, load balancing, and replication are some of these added features.

This section contains:

About Fault Tolerance, Load Balancing, Replication, and Clustering: An introduction into the terminology associated with clustering.
Replication and Clustering in IIS: Instruction for replicating configuration settings from one computer to another computer using the Iissync.exe utility.

This section does not contain information on:

Adding Web sites to a server; see Adding Sites.
Starting or stopping Web sites on a server; see Starting and Stopping Sites.
Monitoring Web or FTP server performance; see Performance Monitoring.
Optimizing Web or FTP server performance; see Performance Tuning.
Forming or managing clusters or replicating content; see the documentation for your clustering application.