In order to load balance dotCMS:
- Your database must be fully configured and running with dotCMS.
- All nodes should be connected to the cluster (see Cluster Configuration) and connected to the same centralized database.
- To use the dotCMS authoring tools, you must use a load balancer that has sticky session support enabled and running in front of your dotCMS instances.
Note:
- All caches and indexes are stored separately on each node in the cluster.
- DNS round robin can be used to distribute load across dotCMS servers in a cluster.
- Note however that this will not provide instant failover if a node is taken out of the cluster.
- While it can be done, session clustering at the application server level is not tested.
- Sessions can get large and clustering them can cause unneeded network traffic.
