Tag: Webfarm

All the articles with the tag "Webfarm".

• A view from the cloud (or: locate your ASP.NET MVC views on Windows Azure Blob Storage)

  9 Jun, 2009

  Hosting and deploying ASP.NET MVC applications on Windows Azure works like a charm. However, if you have been reading my blog for a while, you might have seen that I don’t like the fact that my ASP.NET MVC views are stored in the deployed package as well… Why? If I want to change some text or I made a typo, I would have to re-deploy my entire application for this. Takes a while, application is down during deployment, … And all of that for a typo…

• Back to the future! Exploring ASP.NET MVC Futures

  2 Apr, 2009

  For those of you who did not know yet: next to the ASP.NET MVC 1.0 version and its source code, there’s also an interesting assembly available if you can not wait for next versions of the ASP.NET MVC framework: the MVC Futures assembly. In this blog post, I’ll provide you with a quick overview of what is available in this assembly and how you can already benefit from… “the future”.   First things first: where to get this thing? You can download the assembly from the CodePlex releases page. Afterwards, reference this assembly in your ASP.NET MVC web application. Also add some things to the Web.config file of your application: [code:c#] <?xml version="1.0"?> <configuration>     <!-- ... -->     <system.web>         <!-- ... -->

• Accessing Windows Azure Blob Storage from PHP

  14 Mar, 2009

  Pfew! A week of Microsoft TechDays here in Belgium with lots of talks on new Microsoft stuff, Azure included. You may know I already experimented with Windows Azure and ASP.NET MVC. Earlier this week, I thought of doing the same with Windows Azure and PHP... At Microsoft PDC 2008, the Azure Services Platform was announced in the opening keynote. Azure is the name for Microsoft’s Software + Services platform, an operating system in the cloud providing services for hosting, management, scalable storage with support for simple blobs, tables, and queues, as well as a management infrastructure for provisioning and geo-distribution of cloud-based services, and a development platform for the Azure Services layer.

• ASP.NET Session State Partitioning using State Server Load Balancing

  24 Jan, 2008

  It seems like amount of posts on ASP.NET's Session State keeps growing. Here's the list: Yesterday's post on Session State Partitioning used a round-robin method for partitioning session state over different state server machines. The solution I presented actually works, but can still lead to performance bottlenecks. Let's say you have a web farm running multiple applications, all using the same pool of state server machines. When having multiple sessions in each application, the situation where one state server handles much more sessions than another state server could occur. For that reason, ASP.NET supports real load balancing of all session state servers.

• ASP.NET Session State Partitioning

  23 Jan, 2008

  After my previous blog post on ASP.NET Session State, someone asked me if I knew anything about ASP.NET Session State Partitioning. Since this is a little known feature of ASP.NET, here's a little background and a short how-to.

• ASP.NET load balancing and ASP.NET state server (aspnet_state)

  22 Nov, 2007

  At one of our clients, we used to have only one server for ASP.NET applications (including web services). Since this machine is actually business-critical and load is constantly growing, the need for a second machine is higher than ever. This morning I was asked to set up a simple demo of a load-balanced ASP.NET environment. I already did this in PHP a couple of times, but in ASP.NET, this question was totally new to me. Things should not be very different, I thought. And this thought proved right! A bit later, we had a load balancer in front of 2 web server machines. We got everything configured, fired up our webbrowser and saw a different page on each refresh (stating the server's hostname). Load balancing mission succeeded!