dotnet performance: All,

This is probably the wrong forum, but I cannot find a general web environment design/scaling newsgroup.

We are needing a load balancing solution for our SSL servers. We have been using a DNS round robin for the regular sites and it's a cheap way to accomplish load balancing. Since SSL certificates are installed on each machine tied to the secure domain, round robin DNS doesn't work.

We've looked into hardware SSL balancers but they are way more expensive than we are looking for.

Is there a software solution that works well with Windows 2000/2003? How are people load balancing secure servers?

There is the included Network Load Balancing feature in Windows 2000/2003
that works for small implementations.

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Robert Bogue
Microsoft MVP Server-Networking
MCSE(NT4), MCSE (W2K), MCSA:Security (W2K), CNA, A+, Network+, IT Project+,
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Crowe Chizek and Co LLC
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been using a DNS round robin for the regular sites and it's a cheap way to
accomplish load balancing. Since SSL certificates are installed on each
machine tied to the secure domain, round robin DNS doesn't work.
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