.Net on Shared Hosted IP's

[John Carnahan]

I'm using a shared Hosted IP "Brinkster" and the Session Variables keep
being lost between page calls. Here is their response to the problem.

"Brinkster's customers are run from redundant, load balanced server
environments. Brinkster's load balancer can push your session from one
redundant server to the next; sometimes when this happens, your sessions
will be lost. To work around this, Brinkster suggests that you store your
session information and variables somewhere that cannot be lost, such as in
a database, a text file, or even in a cookie. "

My questions are...
1.)Is the above answer legitimate with load balanced redundant servers and
..Net? I thought I read somewhere that MS says you need a server dedicated
as a STATE server or something in order for sessions to work between
servers. Does anyone know if that is correct?
2.)If Brinkster just doesn't have things set up correctly, does anyone know
what I can suggest to them to do about it? Or do I have to dump the idea of
sessions and go to database, cookies and all the other hard stuff?
3.)Or, any suggestions on an IP where .Net is working correctly...WITH
SESSIONS.

The bottom line is, I really want to use the session variables and not have
to re-write all of my code that uses them.

[Paul R]

Hey John,

If their server are load balanced then the statement is correct.
You would need to use sql server, or implement a custom solution. Check
with brinkster to see if you have storage on a sql server for your account.
The following MSDN article has information on ASP.net session state towards
the bottom.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...Management.asp

Thanks
Paul
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I'm using a shared Hosted IP "Brinkster" and the Session Variables keep
being lost between page calls. Here is their response to the problem.

"Brinkster's customers are run from redundant, load balanced server
environments. Brinkster's load balancer can push your session from one
redundant server to the next; sometimes when this happens, your sessions
will be lost. To work around this, Brinkster suggests that you store your
session information and variables somewhere that cannot be lost, such as in a database, a text file, or even in a cookie. "

My questions are...
1.)Is the above answer legitimate with load balanced redundant servers and
.Net? I thought I read somewhere that MS says you need a server dedicated
as a STATE server or something in order for sessions to work between
servers. Does anyone know if that is correct?
2.)If Brinkster just doesn't have things set up correctly, does anyone know what I can suggest to them to do about it? Or do I have to dump the idea of sessions and go to database, cookies and all the other hard stuff?
3.)Or, any suggestions on an IP where .Net is working correctly...WITH
SESSIONS.

The bottom line is, I really want to use the session variables and not have to re-write all of my code that uses them.