Any good HA (High Availability) solution for a few Win2k AS IIS web servers?

[3legs]

Any advice from you experienced users?

 

[Hank Arnold]

How about some info on the configuration you want to have? "Real" HA
solutions can run into big bucks.... What exactly do you want to do?

P.S. Try posting in plain text and not HTML. It's considerd bad netiquette.
Some readers can't read HTML. Also, with the possibility of maliscious code
in HTML code, some people will turn off the ability to read it....

 

[3legs]

Thanks and sorry for the HTML, just forget to switch back 'coz another
newsgroup *needs* HTML be enabled.

About the HA solution, our company is basically hosting some hundreds of web
sites for our clients, but the hosting IIS machines (each host their own set
of web sites, no backup no relationship) are just Win2K AS connected to the
Internet. What bothers us is that there is no good backup solution so in
case one of them breaks down, we can get back the data but it takes very
long to setup everything again (and the service will stop).

What's more, in the server hardware fails, we may not be able to get the
same set of hardware configuration replacement meaning that we are not able
to use that Metabask backup option from IIS (if we had to re-build all
accounts one-by-one by hand...) so we are currently looking for some
convenient solution to protect the machines (and preferrably can help to
actually upgrade the machine without bother to re-configure everything).

Any suggestion would be welcome.