Anyone have experience setting up multiple Win2003 servers?

[miamiwebster]

I presently have a single Windows 2003 server running some fairly small websites but one website provides abused children services and recently entered into a partnership with a state agency.

Anyway, is there anyone here that can tell me if they have experience with running multiple servers at ServerBeach such as mirroring a website over two servers as well as a database server? Just an example. I know that taking a course in managing IIS would help but with my present job, grad school and family responsibilities, I don't see the time being available so was hoping you guys & gals would either say 'Yes, it's doable, read here....' or 'Possible but not sensible because of ....'.

Thanks and hope to hear from you soon.

[KyleMulligan]

It's usually best if you dedicate one server to performing central db work, then assign the others as web servers and throw it all behind a load balancer. Windows 2003 supports NLB, but I believe you need the Enterprise version to get that kind of functionality.

http://www.west-wind.com/presentations/loadbalancing/NetworkLoadBalancingWindows2003.asp gives a decent overview of the process.