Single Front End Server
This configuration places the Web3 databases on a remote database server. The "front-end" server is the machine that hosts all of the Web3 services, the "back-end" server is the machine that hosts SQL server and the Web3 databases.
To install this configuration you have two options:
| 1) | Perform the Complete Server Installation and when prompted for the database details enter the address of the remote database server. This requires either that the user performing the installation has administration privileges on the remote server or that you know the name and password of a SQL Server account that grants administration privileges on the remote server. |
| 2) | Perform separate Database Server Installation and Front-End Server Installation: |
| a) | The database administrator runs the Database Server Installation either on the database server itself or on a remote machine connected to the database server. This will install the databases. |
| b) | The database administrator grants permissions on the Web3 databases to a domain account that will be used by Web3 front-end servers to access the Web3 databases. |
| c) | The front-end server administrator runs the Front-End Server Installation on the front-end server machine and when prompted for the database address enters the address of the database server. When prompted for the identity to use for Web3 Windows services and the Web3 application pool, the front-end server administrator should enter the details of the domain user who has been granted permission on the databases. |
This configuration has the advantage that it moves one major part of the server load off the main Web3 server machine and on to a separate physical server. It is important to ensure that the network connection between these machines is sufficient to carry the traffic between them - a fast ethernet connection on a local LAN segment is the only recommended configuration.