How do you handle reboots?

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Published on 2012-12-03T22:43:05Z Indexed on 2012/12/04 5:07 UTC
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We have one VPS (Windows 2008 R2+IIS7.5), with an asp.net mvc 3 application.

The main question is: how to handle issues when Windows needs to reboot? (after installing Windows Updates or anything else). The goal is to make the website 24/7, but first it's ok to show a message to the users. (we'll be back soon, something like app_offline.htm)

Our application uses SQL and also writes/reads some files (uploaded photos, documents) which are not stored in SQL.

What do you recommend?

  1. Load balancing with ARR? (with 1+2 servers, but what if the front-end server needs reboot?)
  2. Windows failover cluster?
  3. SQL failover cluster?
  4. What to do with uploaded files?

I really don't know what would be the best (and simplest) solution.

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