So we use a session state server - separate from all of our production servers to keep state. Our shop is ASP.Net, but could the same thing be implemented easily using LAMP/WAMP?
Nathan On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Joseph Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm not suggesting that either ( I must have done bad job explaining my > position ). What I'm advocating for high traffic sites is sticking with the > shared nothing approach that HTTP provides as much as possible. There are > of course some minimal things that need to be done via cookies, like user > validation, but that list should be very, very short and the exception, not > the rule. > > Keeping session state in cookies isn't really much of option for variety > of reasons (security, additional bandwidth, size limitations, etc). Doing > session state on the server side is fine for smaller sites (will never grow > beyond 1 web server), but is a pain for sites that have to scale out to > handle lots of traffic/page views. That basic reason that it is a pain is > keeping all of that data in sync across all of the potential web servers and > data centers that your user might hit to access your site. In many respects > keeping user state in sync is much more important than keeping your > application data in sync (replication lag and such), because of the > potential security implications. > > Avoiding session state for your high traffic site will make it easier to > scale and reduce the number of things that you have to keep up and going and > in (mostly) in sync. For high traffic sites they'll be plenty of other > things to keep you busy :-) > > -- > Joseph Scott > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://joseph.randomnetworks.com/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > UPHPU mailing list > [email protected] > http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu > IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net > -- Nathan Lane Home, http://www.nathandelane.com Blog, http://nathandelane.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
