Hi Stuart,

You are probably best installing one SQL Server for all your Umbraco servers. Make sure you've got Umbraco's Distributed Calling configured and turned on correctly. Have a read of the load balancing setup documentation page on Our.

Thanks, Dan.

Hi Dan,

I have one SQL server installed but what I meant was all the Umbraco web servers pointing on Database or each having its own database

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Hi Stuart,

You'll just need one database created on your SQL server instance. All Umbraco web servers should use the same database.

Thanks, Dan.

Wow I've read the doco you supplied and theres more to it that I first thought. I was going to deploy 2 servers with their own IIS adata and SQL database then push the content from one to the other using Umbraco courier to keep them in sync. Is this not possible?

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You could do yes but I'd suggest only doing that for different environments. For example, keeping content sync'ed between dev, staging and master. If your web servers are to host the same site with the same content, then Distributed Calling is probably the option you'd want to choose. Distributed Calling makes sure your content cache is the same across all your web servers.

OK so ive got it installed using the method you suggest, i.e. Shared Database and DFS.

Is it normal to have to publish all other nodes once a change has been made tothe back office server?

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