Getting high availability of Sitecore instances

It is always a very difficult task to get your web environment up and running all the time as various factors may play into it, such as application crash, database or hardware down, deployments, and so on. We have to accept that both software and hardware are fallible to some extent, so 100% uptime is not possible in the real world.

In this recipe, you will learn Availability Engineering by applying some tactics on Sitecore, ASP.NET, IIS, and the infrastructure side with the help of redundancy and failover techniques. After implementing them, your application will probably have at least fewer failures and quick recovery technology to minimize (or even eliminate) downtime.

How to do it…

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