Implementing Extranets: The Internet as a Virtual Private Network
How to lay the groundwork for extranet applications.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Implementing Extranets: The Internet as a Virtual Private Network
Chapter 5: Highly Available and Reliable Extranets
Chapter Objectives
This chapter describes solutions for highly available and reliable extranets. Availability and reliability are key success factors for extranets because by definition extranets are highly visible to business partners, customers, others outside the organization. In some sense the availability and reliability of an extranet puts the credibility of the entire organization on the line because of the extreme visibility of an extranet.
This chapter discusses:
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A brief history of web site implementations.
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Who should be involved in the design and implementation of highly available and reliable extranet web sites and how long should the design and implementation process take.
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Setting expectations for highly available and reliable extranets.
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Benchmarks and measurable performance and reliability goals for highly available and reliable extranets.
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Round robin domain name server address resolution techniques as a way of building highly available and reliable extranet web sites.
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What happens to round robin domain name server address resolution when a server goes down for any reason.
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Round robin domain name server address resolution recovery techniques for downed servers.
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Intelligent querying of servers by clients and other servers through CORBA and DCOM, etc.
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The colocation solution to the challenge of building highly available and reliable extranet web sites.
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Wide area networking peer connection issues and solutions for building and implementing highly available and reliable extranets.
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Final recommendations for building and implementing highly available and reliable extranets.
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Examples of highly available and reliable extranets from industry.
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Product solutions for highly available and reliable extranets.
Web site technology has...
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