Re: Session and Multi Server Architecture

On 2/11/08, Per Jessen <per@computer.org> wrote: > Make sure all requests from the same client go to the same server. This > is often done by IP-address. isn't that an archaic piece of advice? with shared storage and database/memcache for sessions, i don't find this is necessary at all. in fact, as long as your load balancer has the SSL certs installed, you don't even need any sort of affinity for that either right? i have -never- done any sort of IP affinity. it just works. i use a mysql-based session handler (used to use msession but it added too much latency) perhaps i'm missing something here though. i might be wrong about the SSL stuff, i have not personally done that yet.