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Q&A: Does AlwaysUp work in High Availability Failover Clusters?

My team inherited a cluster of 4 Windows Server 2012 R2 machines running a legacy finance application. At a time only one instance of the application should be up and running as the active/primary instance. The application is cluster-unaware so … Continue reading

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4 Affordable Tools to Monitor & Bulletproof your Web Application/Server

Does your application accept HTTP requests? Are you responsible for a mission-critical application that features a HTML, XML or JSON web interface? And can you visit a URL (such as “http://yoursite.com:3232/status”) to confirm that your web application is working well? … Continue reading

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