We recently acquired a software that allows our ApplicationSupport to move code to different environments (Dev-Stage-Prod) in IIS Servers. We used SiteServer3.0 earlier but since dear MSFT isnt supporting it any more, we had to buy this software outside. Its pretty neat software, I thought it was pricey but we did not have much of a choice.
Oh well..what do I know about cost.
The software can work as both SiteServer3.0 and ApplicationCenter2000 for Promoting and Loadbalancing. AppCenter2000 can be replaced by Microsoft WebDeply for the most part, but we still need code to be replicated between shared servers for loadbalancing. So we bought minimal license that allows SiteServer functionality (code Promote) and scheduled code copy (scheduled a copy for every 15 minutes) for loadbalancing. This minimal license however did not allow replication of IIS settings. So I installed webdeploy and wrote scripts to pull IIS Settings per website on the target server. Webdeploy is easy and very good.
This turned out extremely well and we havent had any issues till now. Fingers Crossed.
This saved us approx USD 200+ per server in licensing costs.
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