title: Excluding a particular IIS website from the web farm environment
body: <p>We have developed a website that uses In-Proc sessions, stores images uploaded from it on a folder inside its own virtual directory, and uses a third party tool that uses server side caching. This setup works just fine in a single server instance.</p>
  
  <p>But the client has a web farm environment. When we deployed this site on client's web farm. Things started failing. Till now - </p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>we have enabled out-proc session, using SQL state management server</li>
  <li>we specified a machine key in the web.config of the server</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>But the other two, specially the third party tool, is proving difficult to crack. </p>
  
  <p>Will it be possible to remove this one website from the web farm? excuse me if the question sounds naive but I am not a server administrator and not aware of its nitty-gritties</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Will it work if we just deactivate one of the websites?</li>
  <li>Can we deploy this website on one of the servers in the farm, but keep it outside the web farm's load balancing?</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Is there any alternative, other than deploying the website on a completely different server?</p>