Dealing with site-down time

Mini & Suthish : both of you guys are right but I am just hosting a simple site so I'll prefer to Suthish here. Thank you guys

mani is right, we too also using a balancing server for that. If one is down other is there. but it depends upon the organisation and how much they needed.

increase website performances + asp.net

You can achieve Zeor down time using Twin Tower methodology.

You should have two server with the same configuration.

One should be active and the other should act as passive server.

Consider you have the build version 2.0 in both the server.

Now you are going to publish the next version 3.0 in the production.

First you should update the passive server with 3.0 in the production. whereas the site wont be down, since its point to the active server 2.0 version.

once the updates completed in the passive server. just point out the production url to the passive server, so that server becomes active now and the active server becomes passive now.

Now you can sync the passive server with the version of 3.0

Your site is now Zero Down Time

@Suthish
Now that's exactly the same I'm already using after rising this thread.
At this time you are right!


{
ASP.NET code explicitly disables batch compilation when debug = true. That
means that every page that gets hit creates its own dynamic assembly. These
assemblies get scattered all over the address space and fragment memory.
The result is that you dramatically increase the probability of an OOM
exception. There are also other drawbacks such as the batch timeout value
being ignored which can cause other problems down the chain.
I think it's very bad idea to have debug=true on production server.
}

@Sam
Yes we can use FileZilla to copy the site exactly as Visual Studio does. However, VS is good but don't know why I am comfortable with FileZilla since my web-hosting life started. 

I am not as experienced with publishing web sites as the others are, but I think you can't use FTP for an ASP site and I assume that FileZilla uses FTP. I think Visual Studio uses Front Page Extensions (although it might now be called something else). So Suthish and other members can help you better but I think you essentially need to use VS to publish the site.

If it is possible to use FTP, then it would help me to know how.

Thank you Suthish for quick reply, I really appreciate this.

I googled out all articles but no use. So, I need some ideas here.

Thanks