You can use Application Center 2000 to perform load balancing when you use the FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions

This article describes Microsoft Application Center 2000. Application Center 2000 provides a method of load balancing that is compatible with the FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions from Microsoft. If you use multiple Web servers on your network, you can use this method to manage groups of servers as if they were a single computer.

Application Center 2000 is a load-balancing tool where one computer is a Cluster Controller and the other servers in the cluster are members. If publishing request forwarding for Microsoft FrontPage is enabled, users will automatically publish to the Cluster Controller and changes are replicated or deployed to the members from there.

Note The Cluster Controller must be online for this functionality to work.

Additionally, FrontPage components that store information on the server, such as hit counters and forms that write to text files, will automatically write their information on the Cluster Controller. The Cluster Controller will replicate the information to the cluster members.

Note FrontPage-generated Active Server Pages (ASP pages) that write to Microsoft Access databases are not recommended for use with Application Center 2000 because they are typically located in the Web content area, and trying to update data in an Access database could cause data loss. It is recommended that a Data Source Name (DSN) or hard-coded connection to a SQL server is used instead.

For more information about Application Center 2000, visit the following Microsoft Web site: