What is the difference between a web-garden and a web-farm?

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What is the difference between a web-garden and a web-farm?

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Web-garden - An IIS 6.0 feature where you can configure an application pool as a web-garden and also specify the number of worker processes for that pool. It can help improve performance in some cases.
Web-farm - A general term referring to a cluster of physically separate machines, each running a web-server for scalability and performance (contrast this with web-garden which refers to multiple processes on one single physical machine).

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