What is the best way for communication between cluster nodes

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Published on 2010-04-24T18:25:25Z Indexed on 2010/04/24 18:33 UTC
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I have an application written in a combination of ASP/VB6/VBScript and ASP.NET/C# that consists of a website part, SOAP-like webservice part and a queue processing part processing incoming files in a hotfolder.

We are used to running under load balancers (Microsoft or other make). Often we need to communicate between the different load balanced servers. Currently we do this through the SQL Server database that is common for all nodes, however, this comes with a performance penalty as each message requires a transaction and continual polling from the other nodes.

What would be better ways to achieve this?

Tom, Appelby

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