Sharing memory session between servers

Session variables hold per user information. Unlike cookies, sessions store information on the server rather than on the client. The client holds a session cookie with the client’s session ID and at the time of an HTTP request, the server accesses the client’s session ID and retrieves the session data. The default implementation of session has the web server holding the information in memory. This implementation as fast as it is has some drawbacks: Recycling your app pool or restarting IIS will abandon all of the sessions currently in memory. Sharing sessions between web servers is also not possible and when load balancing traffic between servers we need to resort to “sticky sessions”, a method in which all client requests will be redirected to the same physical server as the first request. This would enable us to still use default sessions, however, it will not solve the first issue I mentioned and we are still running the risk of overloading a server’s memory under heavy traffic load when some of our servers are slow to respond.