I did that (especially the bit about building a server farm) – however, the problem is that I have a small farm that has been bespoked over time and so I was wondering how you ensure that the web parts are installed on both machines, how to ensure all the css changes are replicated and how, when you already have an index on a front end server, you can move this to the server assigned the index / job role without having to reindex hundreds of gigs of data
I’ve asked Microsoft and they seem to have no white papers or best practice for doing this sort of thing