3. Who is going to remember long domain name.

4. A personalized business domain name is much easier to remember.

5. If I am interested in your service or product, and you have a free website, I am assuming that you are not offering a serious product or service.

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What method is best? It really depends on your application and some other surrounding factors. Each method is good though and would probably satisfy requirements regardless of configuration. Especially if you are closely monitoring each server node with an external tool (other than directly from load-balancing switch). So, with external monitoring you can confirm that all server nodes are operating without error and within reasonable speed thresholds that have been set.

Also, remember that, regardless which traffic algorithm is chosen, if a node goes down, traffic is sent to other nodes. And when a node comes back online, it can automatically be placed back into webfarm and start getting client requests again.

Clustered hosting does require some consideration of how state is managed within applications, which will be covered in a future article.

Happy hosting!

~Brad

Brad Kingsley is President and Founder of ORCS Web, Inc. - a company that provides managed hosting services for clients who develop and deploy their applications on Microsoft Windows platforms.