Site-to-Site

Site-to-site VPN with linked servers

Site-to-site configurations are often unnecessary and should be avoided. If the only use for a site-to-site configuration is to provide remote users access to multiple sites creating a server at each site without linking will be more reliable and maintainable. Remote users can then connect to each site individually. If communication between servers at each site is required or users need to be able to connect to a single VPN server several services are available to interconnect networks such as AWS Direct Connect, Google Direct Peering and Azure ExpressRoute. These services partner with network providers using dedicated networks and hardware and will outperform any site-to-site VPN running on virtual instances. Additionally features such as replication are not available with linked servers.