signalR web farm

Question

I have successfully used signalR to create a simple chat application inside ASP.NET MVC3. Everything works great locally on my dev machine.

Will the application work the same way in a web farm environment with multiple web servers (going live for example)? How does signalR manage its Hubs across those servers?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Please see David Fowler's blog post about webfarm support in SignalR v0.5: http://weblogs.asp.net/davidfowler/archive/2012/05/02/signalr-0-5.aspx

In short, SignalR currently supports Redis and Windows Azure Service Bus as a way to communicate between multiple servers in a webfarm.