Special considerations for the webfarm versus a "normal" web server include:

• A load balancing switch distributes your website requests across all active nodes via the round-robin method for high availability and support of high-volume traffic.
• Each node within our shared webfarm serves up website content from a single NAS server (network attached storage). When content is updated, all nodes in the webfarm are immediately updated.
• FrontPage extensions to publishing content are not supported on the shared Webfarm, for .NET based applications, we provide a ‘session-state’ server

Components:

If your website uses a third party component, be aware that we do not install custom COM+ components on the webfarm. All components are required to be .NET based and support ‘xcopy’ deployment. This means that the webfarm doesn’t support many of the components offered on our shared hosting plan (listed below) and we will not install any COM+ components on the webfarm. The webfarm is targeted for those who use classic ASP and ASP.NET based applications but special consideration needs to be made for Classic ASP sites because of the lack of COM+ support. 

Supported Webfarm Components: ASPNet POP3 RichTextBox ASPNetMenu ASPNetEmail ASPNetPOP3 RichDataPicker IP*Works! v6 .NET Edition ISAPI RewriteURL

Choose an alternate plan for: VeriSign PayFlow Component IEWeb Controls MobileWeb Controls IP*Works! ASPEmail RichSlider IBiz QuickBooks Integrator V3 .Net Edition IBiz E-Payment Integrator V2 .Net Edition List Nanny DbCombo ASPMail ASPUpload 3.0 ASPTear Classic ASP HexGadget Component Microsoft Index Server

Session State Management:

We provide a state server that can be used for .NET based applications. To utilize this shared session state server on the webfarm, all ‘session-based’ settings should be commented out or removed from your web.config file so that they can inherit the settings that we have set in the machine.config file. For sites using Classic ASP, please request that we configure your webfarm with sticky-sessions.