Sitemaps on multiple front end servers using a http handler, is that a good idea?

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Published on 2010-03-30T09:08:23Z Indexed on 2010/03/30 9:13 UTC
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Question 1

We would like to generate a site map for our CMS site

We have multiple front end servers with approx a million articles.

Environment

  • multiple MS SQL servers
  • multiple front end servers (load balanced)
  • ASP.net - and IIS 6
  • Windows 2003

To have the site maps (the site map index file, and the site map files) physically on the front end servers will be a operations nightmare and error prone.

So we are considering using http handlers instead so that it does not matter what server gets the request, it will be able to serve the correct xml file.

Question 2

If we ping Google each time we publish a new article will that effect us negatively if that happens more than once a hour.

Thanks!

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