More IIS7 goodness: Application Request Routing (ARR)

Application Request Routing (ARR) v1 released today! The ARR feature is a free IIS7 extension that extends the Web server UI and runtime to:

· Achieve high availability and scalability.

· Enable elastic scalability for shared hosters.

· Dynamically load balance web requests (to be used in conjunction with existing load balancers)

ARR enables the following scenarios

· Easily add server capacity as the demand for their web application increases

· Seamlessly deploy or upgrade web applications without downtime

· Shared hosters can offer elastic scalability and change the business model based on resource consumption

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