High availability *

Question

Is there anyway to configure a WCF service with a failover endpoint if the primary endpoint dies? Kind of like being able to specify a failover server in a SQL cluster...

Specifically I am using the TCP/IP binding for speed, but on the rare occurrence that the machine is not available I would like to redirect traffic to the failover server. Not too bothered about losing messages... I'd just prefer not to write the code to handle re-routing!

Answer

You need to use a layer 4 load balancer in front of the two endpoints. Prob best to stick with a dedicated piece of hardware.

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