[UPHPU] load balanced file-based sessions

[Joseph Scott]

On May 6, 2008, at 10:19 AM, Wade Preston Shearer wrote:

>> Having session state on the server side is very convenient, but  
>> when it comes to scaling out it becomes a real pain.  If you have  
>> a site that must be able to handle a lot of traffic (pick your  
>> number, depends a lot on your app) then the convenience of server  
>> side session state quickly becomes a liability.  For high traffic  
>> sites I highly recommend designing it to not use server side  
>> session state.
>
> I don't care where the session is store; I just want it to be file- 
> based (instead of database driven).


I'm advocating not having any session store.

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