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Asked: 2026-05-23T06:22:04+00:00

I have to create WCF servers farm (several workstations in Intranet environment that host

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I have to create WCF servers farm (several workstations in Intranet environment that host WCF servers) and wonder how to implement load balancing.

Requirements are:

  • If workstation is down requests should be automatically redirected to another one
  • The workstation with minimum request processing time should be chosen to handle incoming request

Questions are:

  • Do IIS servers with NLB (that will host my WCF servers) meet my requirement?
  • Can I use more compressed protocol than http to minimize traffic and still live with IIS?

Thank you in advance

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  1. Editorial Team

    NLB will be fine, however, if you use a session based binding (wsHttpBinding or netTcpBinding_ then you have to enable sticky sessions

    If you want full free load balancing then HTTP is the way to go and make sure you don;t have sessions. For lowest overhead use HTTP with the binary encoder (this requires a custom binding although it has been packaged by a number of people – search for NetHttpBinding)

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