Determining Fault-Tolerance Requirements

Fault tolerance is a key aspect of any web infrastructure and should be addressed during planning and designing phases, regardless of whether an organization can afford downtime of its websites or requires 99.999% uptime. In view of this, service-level agreements (SLAs) are highly recommended and should be determined from the operational goals during the design and planning phase. After an SLA is in place, it will be easy to apply the appropriate fault tolerance to the web infrastructure because expectations and tolerances are clearly defined and previously agreed upon by everyone involved in the process.

Various technologies can be applied to a Windows Server 2012 web infrastructure to support even the ...

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