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[Matthew Terenzio]

On Nov 8, 2004, at 3:15 PM, Adam Maccabee Trachtenberg wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Matthew Terenzio wrote:
>
>> For applications using sessions, what are some strategies for being
>> able to scale to a multiple box level?
>
> * Store session on client (cookies)
Will forcing sessions to use cookies solve the problem completely. Can 
you think of any issues that might arise?
Forgive me for asking before I look, but it seems like a DB backed 
session solution would be a great PEAR project.




> * Store session on separate database server shared among all web
>   servers (probably the way to go at first).
> * Use specialized session server (like msession)
> * Store sessions on all db servers and do replication (harder because
>   it requires your updates not to lag)
>
> -adam
>
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