Re: FN-FORUM ASP.NET caching question

date posted 13th December 2002 12:44

And remember, in these multiple choice things, you are asked for the BEST
answer of those given -- not necessarily the absolutely correct one in all
circumstances.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Macnaughton-Jones" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 11:37 AM
Subject: RE: FN-FORUM ASP.NET caching question


> For the same reason you don't use session variables on a web farm. If
> your request goes back to the farm and isn't handled by the same server.
> You *could* use the cache object if all you're doing is using it to hold
> commonly requested data. If the data isn't there then rebuild the
> content, if it is, you got lucky ! It also depends on what software the
> web farm is running - as you can manage session state across the servers
> depending on the configuration.
>
> Cheers
> Andy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Sent: 13 December 2002 11:07
> To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: FN-FORUM ASP.NET caching question
>
>
> I wonder if anyone else is studying for or has taken MCSD 70-305 (VB.NET
> Web Applications)?
>
> I'm using the Osborne study guide (with which I'm becoming increasingly
> disillusioned).
>
> One of the self-test question/answers asserts that you cannot use the
> Cache object (i.e. the data cache) in Web farms. I think this is bollox
> - it certainly isn't shared between web servers, but I can see no reason
> why you shouldn't cache objects on each machine in a web farm. They'd
> surely just manage the cache independently. I can't find any reference
> to this in MSDN either.
>
> Have the authors just got the wrong end of the stick? (Wouldn't be the
> only
> place!)
>
> Cheers,
> Richard
>
>
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