{"id":9433,"date":"2009-02-17T10:50:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9433"},"modified":"2009-02-17T10:50:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","slug":"microsoft-application-request-routing-version-1-for-iis-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9433","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Application Request Routing Version 1 for IIS 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll be honest , I\u2019m not 100% sure what this thing is.\u00a0 It appears to be some more intelligent software based application load balancer and workload router for IIS 7 based web servers. <\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cMicrosoft Application Request Routing for IIS7 is a proxy based routing module that forwards HTTP requests to content servers based on HTTP headers and server variables, and load balance algorithms.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><em>Application Request Routing can be used to:<\/em> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Increase application availability and scalability. <\/em> <\/li>\n<li><em>Better utilize content server resources. <\/em> <\/li>\n<li><em>Facilitate application deployment including pilot management and A\/B testing. <\/em> <\/li>\n<li><em>Lower management costs and create opportunities for shared hosters\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can learn more <a href=\"http:\/\/learn.iis.net\/page.aspx\/489\/using-the-application-request-routing-module\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> where there are links to documentation.\u00a0 There are <a href=\"http:\/\/iis.net\/downloads\/default.aspx?tabid=34&amp;g=6&amp;i=1709\" target=\"_blank\">x86<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/iis.net\/downloads\/default.aspx?tabid=34&amp;g=6&amp;i=1712\" target=\"_blank\">x64<\/a> versions that you can download and install.\u00a0 It looks pretty powerful and I\u2019m going to have to find 120 minutes somewhere to read a bit more about it.\u00a0 On the face of it, it looks like a cheaper alternative to pricey hardware based load balancers like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.f5.com\/products\/big-ip\/\" target=\"_blank\">F5 Big-IP<\/a> or rely on the basic functionality of Windows load balancing (which does work!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll be honest , I\u2019m not 100% sure what this thing is.\u00a0 It appears to be some more intelligent software based application load balancer and workload router for IIS 7 based web servers. \u201cMicrosoft Application Request Routing for IIS7 is a proxy based routing module that forwards HTTP requests to content servers based on HTTP &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9433\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Microsoft Application Request Routing Version 1 for IIS 7&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iis"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}