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Asked: 2026-05-10T17:48:05+00:00

I have to deploy my ASP.NET application into two seperated IIS servers. My application

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I have to deploy my ASP.NET application into two seperated IIS servers. My application works over HTTPS/TLS. My ASP code has to handle client SSL certificate and it means I can’t use simple forward load balancers, because I will never get such certificate from nginx or Apache Load Balancer.

As I understand there is no common (open-source or free) solution for load balancing in Microsoft world and especially for SSL.

I heard about simple DNS balancing, where my domain name would be bound to several ISS servers, and every new client (session) would get IP of one server,and such way I would get simple balancing and SSL support.

Now, I am just at the begging of deployment and it is really interesting to know your opinion of such balancing, or may be to get some recommendations.

Thanks!

As for me, I can’t find another solutions for HTTPS beside DNS balancing. I just have no choice.

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  1. We use Cisco Local Directors, and they seem to handle it fine.

    I haven’t played with pure software solutions for load balancing, but balance might work fine. I’ve only used it for purely 1:1 port forwarding.

    The advantage of using a balance/LD approach over DNS balancing is that you can easily then use it to take servers out of the pool (for upgrades, deployments, debugging, etc).

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