Cheap way to test load balancing in IIS6
Our company is moving to Windows Server 2003 and, thus, IIS6. One business unit is toying with the idea of standardizing on load balancers or at least fail-over clusters. One problem is testing that in development environment without incurring the cost for the extra equipment.
I happened across a posting by Eric Bowens that has a low cost solution: Change the Web Garden setting from 1 to 2, which round-robin's request between two isolated applications. Sweet!