On Jan 20, 2013, at 11:51 AM, Matt Palmer <mpalmer@hezmatt.org> wrote:
On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 03:54:37PM -0800, George Herbert wrote:
On Jan 18, 2013, at 7:52 PM, Matt Palmer <mpalmer@hezmatt.org> wrote:
Storing any state server-side is a really bad idea for scalability and reliability.
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Doing that - into a user state DB of sone sort, either external or in middleware, is routine...
It may be routine, but it is an additional point of failure, and it is also an additional scaling bottleneck. If all you ever run are tiny sites with little chance of ever seeing big loads, sure, stick it in a DB somewhere. But if you ever think (or even hope) that your site will take off one day, it pays to think about these things and reduce the number of fires to put out by one.
I'm talking about multimillion user sites... I designed the hosting infrastructure for one and have been a consulting architect later in the site lifecycle for several others... George William Herbert Sent from my iPhone