1. A method to be executed at least in part in a computing device for managing routing of requests in a networked system with a failover/failback architecture, the method comprising: receiving a request at a cluster of the system; determining a primary cluster assigned to one of a user and a resource associated with the request; attempting to forward the request to the primary cluster for processing; if the attempt fails, attempting to forward the request to a backup cluster assigned to the primary cluster; and if the attempt to forward the request to the backup cluster fails and an alternative mechanism for processing the request exists, employing the alternative mechanism.