Redirecting hosted sites on availablily (not servers)

Guys,

 

 

Thanks for the thoughts, much appreciated. I've been giving this a little more thought - If the virtual webservers are configured to run on a separate port, rather than being differentiated based on host headers, this would be much more feasible, wouldn't it? I could presumably create several pools, each with two members, one for each serverIP:port combination. Then, if one of the virtual webservers is stopped in IIS, it would only be that member server:port combination that's marked as down?

 

 

eg, two physical webservers, at 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2 host cat.com, dog.com, rat.com and donkey.com, with

 

cat.com = port 8081

 

dog.com = port 8082

 

rat.com = port 8083

 

donkey.com = port 8084

 

 

So if cat.com is stopped in IIS on one physical server, the others are all still marked as up? And we have one virtual server listening on the routable address, using iRules to select a pool based on the domain name.

 

 

That would be much more workable than trying to run all websites locally on port 80, right?

 

 

Thanks again.