Posted by: pureblue | November 28, 2006

Scaling your ASP.NET Configuration

To support Web Farms (multiple machines) or Web Gardens (multiple processors), changes to the ASP.NET configuration will need to be made. Thankfully this is just configuration; no code changes would need to be made.

The main thing to be aware of when setting up for a farm/garden is that a user’s request can hit any processor or server. As such, the user’s session needs to be available across the entire farm/garden and so session state cannot be held locally in memory, which is the default configuration.

The following links give further details on what can be involved:

Session-State modes: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178586.aspx

Web Garden Model: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnaspp/html/dngrfTheASPNETHTTPRuntime.asp

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