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Load Balancing in DW10

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Nuno Aguiar Dynamicweb Employee
Nuno Aguiar
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Posted on 09/08/2024 13:03:53

Hi,

 

How/Is DW handling for Load Balancing scenarios?

 

Going into DW10 and customers asking for our options around Load Balancing / High Availability. I know that in DW9, there is a dll we can add to support it (essentially triggers cache from the master node to all other nodes), but I don't remember if there's something similar for DW10.

 

Based on that we will need to explore our options to configure LB, whether we always use Active-Passive, pointing them to a particular node when they want to manage data in the backend OR if we could adopt a Round Robin setup (which can be more challenging for backend scenarios).

 

To add to this, I also need to consider things like Shared database (only good option for DW9) or if we could have some Database replication setups for more demanding customers.

 

Best Regards,

Nuno Aguiar


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Nicolai Pedersen Dynamicweb Employee
Nicolai Pedersen
Posted on 09/08/2024 15:08:10
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9 and 10 has feature parity on loadbalancing. You would set it up exactly in the same way.

You will not get higher availability using load balancing. Probably the opposite as servers have near 0 downtime and the complexity of the LB setup will cause more issues than server downtime.

 
Nuno Aguiar Dynamicweb Employee
Nuno Aguiar
Posted on 12/08/2024 13:13:20
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Hi Nicolai,

 

  • Good to know about Load Balancing in DW10
  • I don't disagree that the benefits of LB setup may outweight it's benefits
  • I agree Servers have 0 downtime for the most part
    • Other than the ocassional OS update
  • I also realize that DW10 is more resilient to dll updates, so even blue-green setup as even lesser of a issue
  • That said, some customers are adamant about it, regardless of our recommendation/experience

 

All in all, I'm just looking for what options I can reliable account for.

 

Thanks,

Nuno Aguiar

 

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