Pre-requisites for promoting a non-load-balanced organization

Before promoting a non-load-balanced organization to a load-balanced organization, ensure that you fulfill the following requirements:

  1. The primary hosting server (resource) on which the non-load-balanced organization is hosted, must be present in a load-balancing environment with at least one more secondary hosting server. They can be connected to the external network through a load-balancing software or hardware device. You can locate this primary resource by viewing the non-load-balanced organization's service options for the Windows Web Hosting service.

  2. The Windows Web Hosting service's hosting server installer, WVHServerInstaller.exe, must be installed on all the secondary hosting servers in the load-balancing setup. For installation instructions, see the service's latest installation and upgrade guide.

  3. Ensure that in the primary resource's service options for the Windows Web Hosting service, IIS Web Service is present and enabled.

  4. The primary resource's configuration must be changed to enable load balancing. For instructions, see Changing existing resource's options. If you are allowed to create load-balanced organizations, please contact your service provider for converting the resources assigned to you into load-balanced resources.

  5. The non-load-balanced organization must have its data already stored on the NAS server. You can verify this by viewing the organization's service options for the Windows Web Hosting service.

  6. Important: An organization can have load-balanced Windows Web Hosting service only if its data is stored on the NAS server.